Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 13
If Bába Yagá comes, whilst you are combing her hair weave a part of her hair and hang the knot on to the window.
Who acts: Bába, you · What happens: come, comb, weave, hang on · To what, where: hair, part, knot
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, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 comes | mark |
| 2 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bába | flat |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 combing | punct |
| 6 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 9 combing | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 combing | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 combing | aux |
| 9 | combing | comb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comes | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 combing | obj |
| 12 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 combing | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weave | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hair | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hang | cc |
| 19 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 weave | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knot | det |
| 21 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hang | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hang | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hang | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Bába | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | comb | present · progressive | you | Bába's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weave | infinitive | you not said here | a part of Bába's hair | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product | ||||
| 4 | hang on | infinitive | you not said here | the knot | to the window result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent knot=Patient to window=Result |
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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