Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 47

Then the Bába Yagá met them and said: “O ye unlooked-for, uninvited guests, how did you dare without leave to tie your horses to my stakes?”

Who acts: Bába Yagá, you, my · What happens: meet, say, dare, tie, stake · To what, where: brides, horses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába Yagá, you, my), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 met	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Yagá	det
3	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Yagá	compound
4	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 unlooked	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 unlooked	punct
11	O	o	INTJ	_	13 unlooked	discourse
12	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 unlooked	nsubj
13	unlooked	unlooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 for	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	13 unlooked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guests	punct
17	uninvited	uninvited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 guests	amod
18	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 unlooked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dare	punct
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 dare	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dare	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 dare	nsubj
23	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unlooked	parataxis
24	without	without	ADP	_	25 leave	case
25	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dare	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tie	mark
27	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dare	xcomp
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horses	nmod:poss
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tie	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 stakes	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stakes	nmod:poss
32	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tie	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the Bába Yagá	brides = bride	then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	the Bába Yagá not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	dare in a quote	past · do-support	you			without leave	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tie in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	your horses		to my stakes	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to stake=Co-Patient
5	stake in a quote		my				nom stake «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 7, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 47