Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 20

“Let me go!” the witch repeated.

Who acts: you, Iván, me · What happens: let, go, repeat · To what, where: 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 (you, Iván, me), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Let	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Iván	the witch obj	tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	Iván not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	repeat	participle	me not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 20