Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

He covered all of his courtyard with scarlet velvet and golden brocade, and at every side-path he posted journeymen and servants to keep out all the hunger-brothers and scare them outside.

Who acts: MARK · What happens: cover, post, keep out, scare · To what, where: courtyard, journeymen, side path, hunger brothers

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 (MARK), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 courtyard	det
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 courtyard	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 courtyard	nmod:poss
6	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covered	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 velvet	case
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 velvet	compound
9	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 courtyard	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brocade	cc
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brocade	amod
12	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 velvet	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 posted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 posted	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	19 path	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 path	det
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 path	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 side	punct
19	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 posted	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 posted	nsubj
21	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 covered	conj
22	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 posted	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 servants	cc
24	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 journeymen	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 posted	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 keep	compound:prt
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 brothers	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brothers	det
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brothers	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 hunger	punct
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 keep	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 scare	cc
34	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 keep	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 scare	obj
36	outside	outside	ADV	_	34 scare	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past	MARK	MARK's courtyard		with scarlet velvet and golden brocade	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent courtyard=Destination with velvet=Theme
2	post	past	MARK	journeymen and servants	every side path		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journeyman=Theme
3	keep out	to-infinitive	MARK not said here	all hunger brothers			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
4	scare	infinitive	MARK not said here	journeymen = journeyman		outside property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 91