Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 66
Whilst she was moving, the stepmother sent her hated stepdaughter into the wood, but she always came back perfectly safe, for the doll showed her the way by which she could avoid Bába Yagá’s hut.
Who acts: meadow, stepmother, doll · What happens: move, send, hate, come back, show, avoid · To what, where: stepdaughter, wood, way, meadow, hut
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 (meadow, stepmother, doll), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 moving | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moving | aux |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sent | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moving | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stepmother | det |
| 7 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hated | nsubj |
| 10 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | ccomp |
| 11 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hated | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 perfectly | advmod |
| 21 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 came | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 showed | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 showed | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 doll | det |
| 26 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 showed | nsubj |
| 27 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 showed | iobj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 showed | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 avoid | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 avoid | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 avoid | aux |
| 35 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 way | acl:relcl |
| 36 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 hut | nmod:poss |
| 37 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Bába | flat |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Bába | case |
| 39 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 avoid | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · progressive | meadow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past | the stepmother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hate | past | meadow | stepdaughter | the wood | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stepdaughter=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come back | past | meadow | always, perfectly, safe property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | past | the doll | the way | meadow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 6 | avoid | could | meadow | Bába's hut | by the way | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent hut=Location |
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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