Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 19

“Oh, I am the Devil, and I am thanking you because when the old woman was stumbling along and barking at me uselessly, you put in a good word for me.”

Who acts: Petrúsha, old woman, you · What happens: be, thank, stumble, bark, put · To what, where: Devil, you, good word

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petrúsha, old woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 Devil	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 Devil	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Devil	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Devil	det
7	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 put	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thanking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thanking	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thanking	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thanking	aux
12	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Devil	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thanking	obj
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 stumbling	mark
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stumbling	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stumbling	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stumbling	aux
20	stumbling	stumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thanking	advcl
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 stumbling	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 barking	cc
23	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stumbling	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 barking	obl
26	uselessly	uselessly	ADV	_	23 barking	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 word	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 word	amod
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Petrúsha	the Devil				tree rules
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present · progressive	Petrúsha		you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	stumble in a quote	past · progressive	the old woman				along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bark in a quote	gerund	the old woman not said here				at Petrúsha; uselessly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at i=Stimulus
5	put in a quote	present	you			a good word	for Petrúsha	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=Destination

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 5, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 19