Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 139
The trees shuddered, the leaves crackled, Bába Yagá drove in, and Vasilísa met her.
Who acts: trees, leaves, Bába, Vasilísa · What happens: shudder, crackle, drive in, meet · To what, where: 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 (trees, leaves, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trees | det |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shuddered | nsubj |
| 3 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crackled | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crackled | nsubj |
| 7 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuddered | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 9 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | nsubj |
| 10 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bába | flat |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuddered | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 15 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuddered | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shuddered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shudder | past | the trees | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | crackle | past | the leaves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drive in | past | Bába | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | meet | past | Vasilísa | Bába | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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