Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 143
Bába Yagá looked round everywhere, and was rather angry that she had nothing to find fault with and said: “Very well.”
Who acts: Bába · What happens: look round, be, have, find, say · To what, where: nothing, fault · 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 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bába | flat |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 angry | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 angry | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 angry | cop |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 angry | advmod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 angry | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nothing | acl |
| 17 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 find | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 23 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 24 well | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 said | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | Bába | everywhere, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Bába | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Bába not said here | fault | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Bába not said here | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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