Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 148

He rode far, to a very great distance, and he came to two old seamstresses, and asked them if they would not let him live with them.

Who acts: Iván, seamstresses · What happens: ride, come, ask, not let, live · To what, where: two old seamstresses, seamstresses, Iván

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, seamstresses), 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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 rode	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 distance	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 distance	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 distance	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 great	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 distance	amod
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 seamstresses	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 seamstresses	nummod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seamstresses	amod
17	seamstresses	seamstress	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 let	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 live	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Iván				to a great distance; far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to distance=Trajectory
2	come	past	Iván			two old seamstresses		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seamstress=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past			seamstresses = seamstress			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not let a condition, not said to happen	would	seamstresses = seamstress	Iván				tree rules
5	live	infinitive	Iván not said here				with seamstresses = seamstress	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=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 22, sentence 148

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 148