Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 16
Bába Yagá heard it, and she wanted to lift her head and leap away, but she was unable.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: hear, want, lift, leap away, be · To what, where: hag, head
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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bába | flat |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lift | mark |
| 10 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lift | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leap | cc |
| 14 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lift | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 leap | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unable | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 unable | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 unable | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 unable | cop |
| 20 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Bába | hag | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Bába | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bába not said here | Bába's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leap away | infinitive | Bába not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Bába | unable property | 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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