Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 72
The Bába Yagá had to turn back, but the brothers went home safely.
Who acts: Bába Yagá, brothers · What happens: have, turn back, go
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, brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Yagá | det |
| 2 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Yagá | compound |
| 3 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 turn | mark |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 turn | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Bába Yagá | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn back | to-infinitive | the Bába Yagá not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the brothers | home, safely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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