Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 118

Bába Yagá lay down to sleep and said: “In the morning, to-morrow, when I go away you must clean the courtyard, brush out the room, get dinner ready, do the washing, go to the field, get a quarter of oats, sift it all out, and see that it is all done before I come home.

Who acts: Bába, you · What happens: lie down, sleep, say, go, clean, brush out · To what, where: courtyard, room, dinner, washing, field, quarter · 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, you), 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	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
2	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bába	flat
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 morning	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 morning	punct
11	In	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 morrow	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 morning	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 go	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 morning	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	25 clean	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 clean	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 clean	aux
25	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 courtyard	det
27	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clean	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brush	punct
29	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 clean	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 brush	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 room	det
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brush	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 get	punct
34	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 brush	parataxis
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 get	obj
36	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 get	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 do	punct
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 brush	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 washing	det
40	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 go	punct
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 clean	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 field	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 field	det
45	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 get	punct
47	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 go	parataxis
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 quarter	det
49	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 get	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 oats	case
51	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 quarter	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sift	punct
53	sift	sift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 get	conj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sift	obj
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 it	det
56	out	out	ADP	_	53 sift	compound:prt
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 see	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 see	cc
59	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	conj
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 done	mark
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 done	nsubj:pass
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 done	aux:pass
63	all	all	ADV	_	64 done	advmod
64	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 see	ccomp
65	before	before	SCONJ	_	67 come	mark
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 come	nsubj
67	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 done	advcl
68	home	home	ADV	_	67 come	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Bába			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive	Bába not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Bába not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	present	Bába				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	clean in a quote	must	you	the courtyard		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent courtyard=Patient
6	brush out in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the room			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent room=Theme
7	get in a quote	infinitive		dinner		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus
8	do in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the washing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Eventuality
9	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		the field		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location
10	get in a quote	infinitive		a quarter of oats			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quarter=Stimulus
11	sift out in a quote	present		quarter			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
12	see in a quote	infinitive	Bába not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
13	do in a quote	present · passive		quarter		all property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
14	come in a quote	present	Bába			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 118

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 118