Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 32
So the two knights made ready to throw Bába Yagá into the fiery brook.
Who acts: two knights · What happens: make, throw · To what, where: Bába, fiery brook
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 (two knights), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 knights | nummod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 throw | mark |
| 8 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 throw | obj |
| 10 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bába | flat |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 brook | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brook | det |
| 13 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brook | amod |
| 14 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the two knights | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive | the two knights not said here | Bába | into the fiery brook result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bába=Theme into brook=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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