Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 78

Then the peasant saw that there was no help for it, as he was simply freezing with cold, and said, “I have an idea: will you tell stories for a long time?”

Who acts: peasant, help, you · What happens: see, be, freeze, say, have, tell · To what, where: idea, 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 (peasant, help, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 help	det
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 help	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 freezing	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 freezing	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 freezing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 freezing	aux
16	simply	simply	ADV	_	17 freezing	advmod
17	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 saw	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 cold	case
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 freezing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 idea	det
28	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
33	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tell	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 time	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 time	det
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 time	amod
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the peasant			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no help for peasant		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	freeze	past · progressive	help				with cold; simply property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with cold=Theme
4	say speech: ask	past	the peasant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present	the peasant = peasant	a idea				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	you	stories		time		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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 78