Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 75

A visitor knocked at the door: the sister opened the door and saw an old hag, who said: “You have a pretty little place here; three things are lacking.”

Who acts: visitor, old hag, You, three things · What happens: knock, open, see, say, have, lack · To what, where: visitor, door, old hag, little place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitor, old hag, You, three things), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 visitor	det
2	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 visitor	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sister	det
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 opened	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hag	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hag	amod
17	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hag	acl:relcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
26	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 little	advmod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 place	amod
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 have	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lacking	punct
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 things	nummod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lacking	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 lacking	aux
34	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 opened	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 lacking	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 lacking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	participle		a visitor not said here		at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	open	past	a visitor	the door		the sister nsubj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	see	past	a visitor not said here	a old hag			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hag=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	a old hag				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present	You	a little place	here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
6	lack in a quote	present · progressive	three things				tree rules

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 32, sentence 75

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 75