Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 1

Bába Yagá had forbidden her to tell them anything about it; she was therefore much too frightened for a long time to tell them what was her trouble.

Who acts: Bába · What happens: forbid, tell, be · To what, where: her, anything, them, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába), 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	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forbidden	nsubj
2	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bába	flat
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forbidden	aux
4	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forbidden	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forbidden	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 tell	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 anything	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 frightened	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 frightened	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 frightened	cop
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	18 frightened	advmod
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 frightened	advmod
18	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forbidden	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frightened	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	acl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 trouble	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 trouble	cop
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 trouble	nmod:poss
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forbidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past · perfect	Bába	her = she				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Bába not said here	anything	them = they		about it	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Topic
3	is	past	Bába			time	frightened property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Bába not said here		them = they			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is a	past		Bába's trouble			what nsubj; Bába nmod:poss	tree rules

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 39, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 1