Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 71

At last the story went up to the point when the old woman wished to take away the children, and again she would not stand it: “It is untrue!” she said.

Who acts: old woman, woman, point · What happens: go up, wish, take away, not stand, be, say · To what, where: last story, children, point · 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 (old woman, woman, point), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 point	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 point	det
9	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wished	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wished	xcomp
17	away	away	ADP	_	16 take	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stand	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stand	cc
22	again	again	ADV	_	26 stand	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stand	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stand	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 stand	advmod
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stand	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 untrue	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 untrue	punct
30	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 untrue	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 untrue	cop
32	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 said	ccomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 untrue	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 untrue	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past			the last story		to the point	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	wish	past	the old woman					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the children				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	not stand	would	woman	point		again		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	present	point				untrue property	tree rules
6	say speech: express	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 71