Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 117
And the soldier went all round the cauldron, and he called out to the master of the cauldron: “Let me in, please; do let me into the cauldron.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: go, call out, let in, let · To what, where: master, devil, cauldron · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 cauldron | advmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 cauldron | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cauldron | det |
| 8 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 called | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 master | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 master | det |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cauldron | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cauldron | det |
| 19 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 master | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 22 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Let | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Let | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 please | punct |
| 26 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 22 Let | discourse |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | aux |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 Let | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 cauldron | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cauldron | det |
| 33 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the soldier | round the cauldron | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | past | soldier | the master of the cauldron | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | let in in a quote | infinitive | a devil = devil | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | a devil = devil | the cauldron | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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