Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 2

But at last they persuaded her, and she told them: “Every time when you go out on the chase an ancient hag comes into the hut.

Who acts: they, Bába, you, time · What happens: persuade, tell, go out, come · To what, where: Bába, last, them, ancient hag, chase, hut · 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 (they, Bába, you, time), 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	_	5 persuaded	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 persuaded	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 persuaded	nsubj
5	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 persuaded	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 persuaded	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 comes	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 comes	punct
14	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	nsubj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 go	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 time	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 chase	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chase	det
22	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hag	det
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hag	amod
25	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl:unmarked
26	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 hut	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hut	det
29	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	they	Bába		last		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Bába		them = they			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go out in a quote	present	you	a ancient hag		the chase	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	present	every time			the hut		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location

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 2

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 2