Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 136

“Why, _bábushka_,” the stranger asked, “is there such a throng in the city, why are rooms so dear, and why are the people all mourning and melancholy?”

Who acts: stranger, throng · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: rooms, people · 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 (stranger, throng), 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	_	11 asked	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 bábushka	punct
5	bábushka	bábushka	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Why	appos
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 bábushka	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	ccomp
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 throng	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 throng	det
18	throng	throng	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 city	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 city	det
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throng	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rooms	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 rooms	advmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 rooms	cop
25	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 throng	appos
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 dear	advmod
27	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rooms	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 people	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 people	cc
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 people	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 people	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 asked	parataxis
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 mourning	det
35	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 people	appos
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 melancholy	cc
37	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mourning	conj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 people	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the stranger				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	such throng in the city		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present		rooms			tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present		the people		all mourning and melancholy appos	tree rules

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 7, sentence 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 136