Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 152
Next morning Bába Yagá got up and stood at the window, and then went into the courtyard and whistled; and the mortar, the besom, and the pestle appeared at once, and the red horseman came by: and the sun rose.
Who acts: mortar, red horseman, sun · What happens: get up, stand, go, whistle, appear, come · To what, where: window, courtyard
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 (mortar, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 3 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 4 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bába | flat |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courtyard | det |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whistled | cc |
| 20 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 appeared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 appeared | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mortar | det |
| 24 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 besom | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 besom | det |
| 27 | besom | besom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mortar | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 appeared | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 appeared | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pestle | det |
| 31 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | nsubj |
| 32 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 once | case |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 appeared | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 came | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 horseman | det |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 horseman | amod |
| 39 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 appeared | conj |
| 41 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 46 rose | mark |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 46 rose | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 rose | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sun | det |
| 45 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 rose | nsubj |
| 46 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 came | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the courtyard | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | whistle | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | appear | past | the mortar and the besom | the pestle nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the red horseman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | 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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