Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 73

There was once a porter in the world: he had a wife who was passionately fond of stories, and she would only let people come and visit her who could tell stories.

Who acts: porter, wife, people · What happens: be, have, let, come, visit, tell · To what, where: wife, people, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (porter, wife, people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 porter	det
5	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 porter	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fond	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fond	cop
16	passionately	passionately	ADV	_	17 fond	advmod
17	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 stories	case
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fond	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 let	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 let	advmod
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	conj
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 let	obj
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 visit	cc
29	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tell	nmod:poss
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 tell	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 visit	conj
34	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tell	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a porter in the world		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	porter	a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	is	past	a wife			of stories; fond, passionately property	tree rules
4	let	would	wife	people			tree rules
5	come	infinitive	people not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	visit	infinitive	people not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	could		stories		wife nmod:poss; who nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 73