Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 133
“I should be very glad to have you,” she said, “but I cannot put you anywhere, I am so closely packed.”
Who acts: foreigner · What happens: be, have, say, not put, pack · To what, where: you, foreigner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigner), 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 | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 put | advmod |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 put | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 packed | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 packed | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 packed | aux:pass |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 packed | advmod |
| 27 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 28 packed | advmod |
| 28 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 put | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | foreigner | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | foreigner not said here | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | foreigner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not put in a quote | can | foreigner | you | anywhere property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | |||
| 5 | pack in a quote | present · passive | foreigner | closely property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=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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