Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 156

Next day the old man set the twelve maidens in a row before the boy, and commanded him to choose one of them.

Who acts: old man · What happens: set, command, choose · To what, where: twelve maidens, row, boy, one · 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), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maidens	det
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 maidens	nummod
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 row	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 row	det
12	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 commanded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 commanded	cc
18	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 commanded	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 choose	mark
21	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 commanded	xcomp
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 choose	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set	past	the old man	the twelve maidens	a row	before the boy; day	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme in row=Destination
2	command	past	the old man not said here	boy			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	one of men			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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 156

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 156