Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 137

“Well, you can have until to-morrow,” said the old man, and he took him into a large room.

Who acts: you, old man, Devil · What happens: have, say, take · To what, where: room, large room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man, Devil), 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 have	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	until	until	ADP	_	10 morrow	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 morrow	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 took	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 room	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 room	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 room	amod
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	can	you			until morrow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	Devil	room	a large room		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=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 9, sentence 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 137