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title: The _izbá_ may have a cooling room in which to rest, so as to avoid… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The _izbá_ may have a cooling room in which to rest, so as to avoid the sudden change of air from the heated inner room; it is also a living room in the summer. Who acts: izbá, room, air. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 157

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The \_izbá\_ may have a cooling room in which to rest, so as to avoid the sudden change of air from the heated inner room; it is also a living room in the summer.

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**Who acts:** izbá, room, air · **What happens:** have, rest, avoid, heat, be, change · **To what, where:** cooling room, sudden change, heated inner room, living room

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (izbá, room, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:39:157
# text = The _izbá_ may have a cooling room in which to rest, so as to avoid the sudden change of air from the heated inner room; it is also a living room in the summer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	izbá	izbá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | may | the izbá | a cooling room |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the izbá *not said here* | a cooling room *not said here* |  | a cooling room |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | the izbá *not said here* | the sudden change of air |  | the heated inner room |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent change=Location |
| 4 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | room | a living room |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **change** |  | air |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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