Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

In the forest there was a meadow, and on the meadow there was a hut, and in the hut Bába Yagá lived, who would not let anybody in, and ate up men as though they were poultry.

Who acts: hut, stepmother · What happens: be, live, not let in, eat up · To what, where: hut, anybody, men, poultry

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 (hut, stepmother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 forest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hut	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 meadow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meadow	det
12	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	obl
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hut	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hut	det
16	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lived	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lived	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hut	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hut	det
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	nsubj
22	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 hut	appos
23	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Bába	flat
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hut	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 let	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 let	advmod
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lived	ccomp
30	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 let	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	29 let	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ate	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ate	cc
34	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 let	advcl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 ate	compound:prt
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ate	obj
37	as	as	ADV	_	41 poultry	advmod
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	41 poultry	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 poultry	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 poultry	cop
41	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ate	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a hut		tree rules
2	live	past	the hut			tree rules
3	not let in	would		anybody	who nsubj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Theme
4	eat up	past		men		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	is a	past	stepmother	poultry		tree rules

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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 65