Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 83
In the morning Bába Yagá woke up and she could not see the mangy foal, so she hunted to the chase: with all her strength she leapt into her iron mortar and she chased after with the pestle, and very soon she was on their track.
Who acts: Bába, Tsarévich · What happens: wake up, not see, hunt, leapt, chase, be · To what, where: mangy foal, iron mortar, track
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, Tsarévich), 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 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woke | obl |
| 4 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bába | flat |
| 6 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 woke | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 woke | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foal | det |
| 14 | mangy | mangy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foal | amod |
| 15 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunted | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 hunted | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hunted | nsubj |
| 19 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 chase | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chase | det |
| 22 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunted | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 leapt | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 strength | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 strength | det:predet |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 strength | nmod:poss |
| 27 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leapt | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 leapt | nsubj |
| 29 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 mortar | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 32 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mortar | compound |
| 33 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leapt | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 chased | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 chased | nsubj |
| 36 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 leapt | conj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 40 pestle | case |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 pestle | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pestle | det |
| 40 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 chased | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 track | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 track | cc |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 soon | advmod |
| 44 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 track | advmod |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 track | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 track | cop |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 track | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 track | nmod:poss |
| 49 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leapt | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Bába | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | Tsarévich | the mangy foal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foal=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hunt | past | Tsarévich | to the chase | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leapt | past | Tsarévich | Tsarévich's iron mortar | with Tsarévich's strength | tree rules | |||
| 5 | chase | past | Tsarévich | after the pestle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after pestle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Tsarévich | foals's track | foals = foal nmod:poss; soon property | 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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