Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 112
Then the door closed, and Bába Yagá stretched herself in the room and said to Vasilísa: “Give me whatever there is in the oven.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: close, stretch, say, give, be · To what, where: door, Bába, Vasilísa, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 closed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stretched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stretched | cc |
| 7 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stretched | nsubj |
| 8 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bába | flat |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | advcl |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 stretched | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stretched | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stretched | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Vasilísa | case |
| 17 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Give | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Give | punct |
| 20 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Give | iobj |
| 22 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 is | obj |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Give | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 oven | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 oven | det |
| 27 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle · passive | the door | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | Bába | Bába | in the room | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in room=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bába not said here | Vasilísa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vasilísa=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | Bába | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | whatever | there | in the oven | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme in oven=Attribute |
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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