Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 80
Bába Yagá went to sleep; and that same night Iván Tsarévich stole the mangy steed from its stall, mounted it and flew to the fiery river.
Who acts: Bába, same night · What happens: go, sleep, steal, mount, fly · To what, where: mangy steed, stall, steed
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába, same night), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bába | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stole | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stole | cc |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 night | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | nsubj |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 night | appos |
| 12 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Iván | flat |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 steed | det |
| 15 | mangy | mangy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steed | amod |
| 16 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 stall | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stall | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steed | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mounted | punct |
| 21 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mounted | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mounted | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 27 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 river | amod |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Bába | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Bába not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | steal | past | that same night | the mangy steed | steed's stall | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent steed=Theme from stall=Source | |||
| 4 | mount | past | steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fly | past | to the fiery river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result |
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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