Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 85
Then she went on to the bridge; but as soon as she got on to the bridge it snapped, and Bába Yagá slipped into the river, and it was a savage death she had.
Who acts: Tsarévich, bridge, Bába · What happens: go on, get on, snap, slip, be, have · To what, where: bridge, river, savage death
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 (Tsarévich, bridge, Bába), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bridge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 got | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bridge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bridge | det |
| 18 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 snapped | nsubj |
| 20 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 slipped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slipped | cc |
| 23 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 slipped | nsubj |
| 24 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Bába | flat |
| 25 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slipped | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 death | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 death | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 death | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 death | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 death | det |
| 34 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 death | amod |
| 35 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slipped | obl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 death | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Tsarévich | then | to the bridge | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get on | past | Tsarévich | to the bridge result; soon property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bridge=Result | ||||
| 3 | snap | past | bridge | the bridge not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bridge=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slip | past | Bába | the river | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | bridge | a savage death | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Tsarévich | a savage death not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient |
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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