Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 143
But one day Bába Yagá with the bony legs came into the hut and sucked the blood out of the fair maiden’s breast.
Who acts: one day · What happens: come, suck · To what, where: hut, blood, breast
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one day), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 4 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 5 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bába | flat |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 legs | det |
| 8 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 day | nmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hut | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sucked | cc |
| 15 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blood | det |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sucked | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 breast | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 breast | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maiden | amod |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 breast | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 maiden | case |
| 24 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sucked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one day with the bony legs | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | suck | past | one day with the bony legs not said here | the blood | the fair maiden's breast | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blood=Theme out breast=Source |
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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