Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 111
And the door sprang open, and Bába Yagá went in whistling and whirring, and Vasilísa followed her.
Who acts: door, Bába, Vasilísa · What happens: spring, go, follow · To what, where: whistling, Bába
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 (door, Bába, Vasilísa), 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 | _ | 4 sprang | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sprang | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 9 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bába | flat |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 whistling | case |
| 12 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whirring | cc |
| 14 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whistling | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 17 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the door | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Bába | whistling and whirring | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in whistling=Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Vasilísa | Bába | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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