Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 101
And out of the wood Bába Yagá drove in inside the mortar with the pestle, and with the broom swept away every trace of her steps.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: drive, sweep away, step · To what, where: wood, trace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drove | cc |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | obl |
| 6 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wood | appos |
| 7 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bába | flat |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mortar | case |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 12 mortar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mortar | det |
| 12 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pestle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pestle | det |
| 15 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mortar | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swept | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 broom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 broom | det |
| 20 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swept | obl |
| 21 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drove | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 swept | advmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 trace | det |
| 24 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swept | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 steps | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 steps | nmod:poss |
| 27 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trace | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the wood | in the mortar with the pestle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sweep away | past | every trace of Bába's steps | with the broom; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | step | Bába | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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