---
title: “That is very well, _bábushka_; we have been rambling the woods in v… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is very well, _bábushka_; we have been rambling the woods in vain all night, and our luck has come into the hut; give us supper.” Who acts: That, we, luck. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/65/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/) / 65

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 65

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“That is very well, \_bábushka\_; we have been rambling the woods in vain all night, and our luck has come into the hut; give us supper.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** That, we, luck · **What happens:** be, ramble, come, give · **To what, where:** woods, vain, hut, supper, us

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, we, luck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:19:65
# text = “That is very well, _bábushka_; we have been rambling the woods in vain all night, and our luck has come into the hut; give us supper.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bábushka	bábushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
14	rambling	ramble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ramble** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | we | the woods |  | vain | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | our luck |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | our luck *not said here* | supper | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient supper=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/64/)
- next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/66/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/)