Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 65

“That is very well, _bábushka_; we have been rambling the woods in vain all night, and our luck has come into the hut; give us supper.”

Who acts: That, we, luck · What happens: be, ramble, come, give · To what, where: woods, vain, hut, supper, us

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, we, luck), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 rambling	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 well	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 rambling	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bábushka	punct
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 bábushka	punct
8	bábushka	bábushka	X	Foreign=Yes	5 well	conj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 bábushka	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 rambling	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 rambling	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rambling	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 rambling	aux
14	rambling	ramble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woods	det
16	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rambling	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 vain	case
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rambling	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rambling	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 luck	nmod:poss
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 rambling	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 hut	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hut	det
29	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 rambling	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 rambling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That					well property	tree rules
2	ramble in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	we	the woods		vain	night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	our luck			the hut			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location
4	give in a quote	infinitive	our luck not said here	supper	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient supper=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 19, sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 65