Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 115
Why did you look into the lumber-room and let Koshchéy the Deathless out?”
Who acts: you · What happens: look, let out · To what, where: Koshchéy
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 7 | lumber | lumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 lumber | punct |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 12 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Deathless | det |
| 14 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Koshchéy | flat |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 let | compound:prt |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | you | into the lumber room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let out | infinitive | you not said here | Koshchéy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchéy=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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