Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 76
Well, one day in the winter, late at night, an old man came in frozen to atoms, and he asked to be allowed to stop the night.
Who acts: man · What happens: freeze, ask, allow, stop · To what, where: one day · 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 (man), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 winter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 winter | det |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 night | punct |
| 9 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 night | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frozen | aux:pass |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 atoms | case |
| 20 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 frozen | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frozen | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 allowed | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allowed | aux:pass |
| 27 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 asked | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 stop | mark |
| 29 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allowed | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 night | det |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stop | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | one day in the winter and night | to atoms | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | night | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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