Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 55

“Oh, I really want them at once, as I have not vessels enough to hold my beer.”

Who acts: tubs · What happens: want, have, hold · To what, where: tubs, vessels, beer

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tubs), 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	_	6 want	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 want	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 want	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 vessels	advmod
15	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 vessels	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hold	mark
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	advcl
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 beer	nmod:poss
20	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	tubs = tub	tubs = tub	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	tubs = tub	vessels	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient
3	hold in a quote	to-infinitive	tubs = tub not said here	my beer	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=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 35, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 55