Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 50
For Bába Yagá with the wooden legs stood in front of her, and to the ceiling rose her nose.
What happens: stand, rise · To what, where: front, nose
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 Bába | case |
| 2 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 3 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bába | flat |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legs | det |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | obl |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 front | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rose | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ceiling | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ceiling | det |
| 17 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | obl |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | front of Bába | for Bába; with the wooden legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Bába's nose | to the ceiling result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient nose=Extent to ceiling=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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