Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 53

Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping: “For this one day I may come, but to-morrow I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.”

Who acts: mother, little birds · What happens: come, throw off, give, begin, weep, fly away · To what, where: hills, feathers, breast, little child, woods

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, little birds), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 baby	case
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 feathers	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feathers	nmod:poss
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 threw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 child	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 breast	det
21	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
25	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 began	xcomp
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
28	For	for	ADP	_	31 day	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 day	det
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 day	nummod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fly	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 fly	cc
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 morrow	case
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 to	punct
39	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fly	obl
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 fly	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 fly	aux
42	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 fly	advmod
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 woods	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 woods	det
46	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fly	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hills	cc
48	over	over	ADP	_	50 hills	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hills	det
50	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 woods	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the baby's mother		hills = hill		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	throw off	past	the baby's mother not said here	mother's feathers					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
3	give	past	the baby's mother not said here	the breast	mother's little child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient breast=Theme
4	begin	past	the baby's mother not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	gerund	the baby's mother not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come in a quote	may	little birds = bird				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fly away in a quote	must	little birds = bird			the woods and the hills		to morrow; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over wood=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 53

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 53