Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 134
“Do let me in, _bábushka_; I am such a simple youth, just as you are; you can find me some small space, some kind of nook for the night.”
Who acts: you, foreigner · What happens: let in, be, find · To what, where: bábushka, foreigner, simple youth
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 (you, 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | aux |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bábushka | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 bábushka | punct |
| 8 | bábushka | bábushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 let | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 bábushka | punct |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 youth | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 youth | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 youth | cop |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 youth | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 15 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 youth | amod |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 are | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 are | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 are | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 are | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 space | det |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 space | amod |
| 29 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kind | punct |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 kind | det |
| 32 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 space | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 nook | case |
| 34 | nook | nook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kind | nmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 night | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 night | det |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | bábushka | foreigner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bábushka=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | foreigner | such simple youth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | can | you | foreigner | night | some small space obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme space=Attribute |
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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