Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 129

Bába Yagá went into the courtyard, and whistled, and the mortar, the pestle, and the besom appeared at once, and the red horseman came by: and the sun rose.

Who acts: Bába, besom, red horseman, sun · What happens: go, whistle, appear, come by, rise · To what, where: courtyard, mortar

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, besom, red horseman, sun), 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 went	nsubj
2	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bába	flat
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 courtyard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 courtyard	det
6	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whistled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 whistled	cc
9	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mortar	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mortar	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mortar	det
13	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whistled	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pestle	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pestle	det
16	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mortar	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appeared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 appeared	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 besom	det
20	besom	besom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appeared	nsubj
21	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whistled	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 appeared	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horseman	det
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 horseman	amod
28	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	29 came	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 rose	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rose	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun	det
34	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rose	nsubj
35	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Bába		the courtyard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location
2	whistle	past		the mortar and the pestle		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Topic
3	appear	past	the besom			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	come by	past	the red horseman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rise	past	the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 129

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 129