Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 35
So the two knights were ready once more to adventure it, and Bába Yagá took them to another well.
Who acts: two knights, Bába · What happens: be, adventure, take · To what, where: oath, knights, another
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 ready | 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 | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 ready | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 adventure | mark |
| 10 | adventure | adventure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 adventure | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 14 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 15 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bába | flat |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 took | obl |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 took | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two knights | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adventure | to-infinitive | the two knights not said here | oath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Bába | knights = knight | another | well property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to another=Destination |
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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