Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 144
And whenever the two knights went away on the chase, Bába Yagá came back, so that very soon the merchant’s fair daughter became thin and feeble.
Who acts: two knights, Bába, fair daughter · What happens: go away, come back, become · To what, where: chase
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 (two knights, Bába, fair daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knights | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 knights | nummod |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | advcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 12 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 13 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bába | flat |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 became | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 became | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 became | mark |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 merchant | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 merchant | det |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 merchant | case |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 daughter | amod |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 became | nsubj |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 27 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 became | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 feeble | cc |
| 29 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thin | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the two knights | the chase | away, whenever property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on chase=Location | |||
| 2 | come back | past | Bába | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | the merchant's fair daughter | thin property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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