Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 3

About two or three hours later Fílyushka smelt a smell of good roast meat, opened the door, and took out the daughter of the Yagá-Búra well cooked; buttered it over, put it into the frying-pan and covered it with a towel, and put it into the bunk; then he climbed up to the roof-tree and took away the business-day pestle and mortar of the Yagá-Búra.

Who acts: Fílyushka, good roast meat · What happens: smelt, open, take out, cook, butter over, put · To what, where: smell, door, daughter, frying pan, bunk, roof tree

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fílyushka, good roast meat), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 three	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 two	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 later	obl:unmarked
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 smelt	advmod
7	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smelt	nsubj
8	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 smell	det
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smelt	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 meat	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 meat	amod
13	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meat	compound
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smell	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 opened	punct
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smelt	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smelt	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 daughter	det
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 Búra	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Búra	det
27	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Búra	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Yagá	punct
29	Búra	Búra	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 cooked	advmod
31	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 took	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 buttered	punct
33	buttered	butter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smelt	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 buttered	obj
35	over	over	ADP	_	33 buttered	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
37	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 buttered	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 put	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	43 pan	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pan	det
41	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pan	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 frying	punct
43	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 covered	cc
45	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smelt	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 covered	obj
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 towel	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 towel	det
49	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 covered	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 put	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 put	cc
52	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 smelt	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 put	obj
54	into	into	ADP	_	56 bunk	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 bunk	det
56	bunk	bunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 put	obl
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 climbed	punct
58	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 climbed	advmod
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 climbed	nsubj
60	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smelt	parataxis
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 climbed	compound:prt
62	to	to	ADP	_	66 tree	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 tree	det
64	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 tree	compound
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 roof	punct
66	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 climbed	obl
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 took	cc
68	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 climbed	conj
69	away	away	ADP	_	68 took	compound:prt
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 pestle	det
71	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 day	compound
72	-	-	PUNCT	_	71 business	punct
73	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 pestle	compound
74	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 took	obj
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 mortar	cc
76	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 pestle	conj
77	of	of	ADP	_	81 Búra	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 Búra	det
79	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	81 Búra	compound
80	-	-	PUNCT	_	79 Yagá	punct
81	Búra	Búra	PROPN	Number=Sing	76 mortar	nmod
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	Fílyushka	a smell of good roast meat			late property	tree rules
2	open	past	Fílyushka not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	take out	past	Fílyushka not said here	the daughter of the Yagá Búra				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
4	cook	participle	Fílyushka not said here				well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	butter over	past	Fílyushka not said here	door				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
6	put	infinitive	Fílyushka not said here	door	the frying pan			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
7	cover	past	Fílyushka not said here	door			with a towel	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with towel=Theme
8	put	infinitive	Fílyushka not said here	door	the bunk			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
9	climb up	past	Fílyushka		the roof tree	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination
10	take away	past	Fílyushka not said here	the day pestle and mortar of the Yagá Búra				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme
11	smell		good roast meat					nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 28, sentence 3

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 3