Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 128

So the old man laughed and said: “I can give you a bride, oh, as many brides as you like”; and they then came to a lake.

Who acts: old man, you, men · What happens: laugh, say, give, like, come · To what, where: bride, you, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, you, men), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bride	det
15	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 oh	punct
17	oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 give	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brides	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 brides	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brides	amod
21	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 like	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
24	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	advcl
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 came	advmod
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 lake	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lake	det
33	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the old man						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	can	the old man = man	a bride	you			as many brides	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bride=Theme
4	like in a quote	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	come	past	men = man			a lake	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location

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 9, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 128