Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

Well, it may be long, it may be short, it may be near, it may be far, but he at last reached the fair princess, and he said he would accomplish her task.

Who acts: bag, boy, princess · What happens: be, reach, say, accomplish, task · To what, where: fair princess, task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bag, boy, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 long	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 long	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 long	cop
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 short	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 short	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 short	cop
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 near	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 near	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 near	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 near	cop
16	near	near	ADV	_	6 long	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 far	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 far	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 far	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 far	cop
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 near	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reached	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 reached	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reached	nsubj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 he	nmod
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
29	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 princess	amod
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 accomplish	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 accomplish	aux
37	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 task	nmod:poss
39	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 accomplish	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	bag		long property	tree rules
2	is	may	bag		short property	tree rules
3	is	may	bag		near property	tree rules
4	is	may	bag		far property	tree rules
5	reach	past	boy	the fair princess		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	accomplish	would	boy	princess's task		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
8	task		princess			nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 5