Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 114

So he went on and on, and he lost his way in the slumberous forest, and he saw a little _izbá_[41] in the forest, and in the _izbá_[41] there lived the Bába Yagá.

Who acts: God · What happens: go, lose, see, live · To what, where: way, slumberous forest, _, forest, Bába Yagá, izbá

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lost	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
15	slumberous	slumberous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forest	amod
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 _	advmod
23	_	_	X	_	20 saw	obj
24	izbá	izbá	X	_	23 _	goeswith
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 _	punct
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	27 41	punct
27	41	41	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 saw	obl
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 41	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lived	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lived	cc
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 izbá	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 izbá	det
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 izbá	punct
37	izbá	izbá	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lived	obl
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	40 41	punct
39	[	[	PUNCT	_	40 41	punct
40	41	41	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 izbá	appos
41	]	]	PUNCT	_	40 41	punct
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 lived	advmod
43	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Yagá	det
45	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Yagá	compound
46	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 lived	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	God				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	God	God's way	the slumberous forest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	see	past	God	_	the forest	41 obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer _=Stimulus
4	live	past	God not said here	the Bába Yagá	the izbá; there		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in izbá=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 29, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 114