Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 5

Then Bába Yagá said to him, “Go, my child, to the sea; there you will find twelve spoonbills flying in the air, they will turn into fair maidens, who will bathe.

Who acts: Bába, Tsarévich, twelve spoonbills, spoonbills, fair maidens · What happens: say, go, find, fly, turn, bathe · To what, where: Tsarévich, child, sea, twelve spoonbills, air, fair maidens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. 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, twelve spoonbills, spoonbills), 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	4 said	advmod
2	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bába	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
9	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sea	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Go	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 find	expl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Go	conj
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 spoonbills	nummod
23	spoonbills	spoonbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 find	obj
24	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 spoonbills	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flying	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turn	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Go	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 maidens	case
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 maidens	amod
34	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 turn	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bathe	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 bathe	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 bathe	aux
38	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 maidens	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bába		Tsarévich		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive		my child		the sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
3	find in a quote	future	Tsarévich	twelve spoonbills		there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonbill=Topic
4	fly in a quote	gerund	twelve spoonbills not said here			the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
5	turn in a quote	future	spoonbills = spoonbill			fair maidens		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory
6	bathe in a quote	future	fair maidens					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 30, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 5