Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 157

The _izbá_ may have a cooling room in which to rest, so as to avoid the sudden change of air from the heated inner room; it is also a living room in the summer.

Who acts: izbá, room, air · What happens: have, rest, avoid, heat, be, change · To what, where: cooling room, sudden change, heated inner room, living room

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (izbá, room, air), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 izbá	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 izbá	punct
3	izbá	izbá	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 izbá	punct
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 rest	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 room	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 avoid	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 avoid	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 avoid	mark
17	to	to	PART	_	18 avoid	mark
18	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 change	det
20	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 change	amod
21	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 avoid	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 air	case
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 change	nmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	28 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
26	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 room	amod
27	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 room	amod
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 avoid	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 room	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 room	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 room	cop
32	also	also	ADV	_	35 room	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 room	det
34	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 room	compound
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 summer	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 summer	det
38	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 room	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	may	the izbá	a cooling room			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	rest	to-infinitive	the izbá not said here	a cooling room not said here	a cooling room		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	avoid	to-infinitive	the izbá not said here	the sudden change of air	the heated inner room		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent change=Location
4	heat	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	present	room	a living room		summer	tree rules
6	change		air				nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 39, sentence 157

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 157