Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 53
So the maiden obeyed, and the Bába Yagá was going to shove her into the oven.
Who acts: maiden, Bába Yagá · What happens: obey, go, shove · To what, where: Yagá, oven
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: who acts (maiden, Bába Yagá), 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 | _ | 4 obeyed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 going | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Yagá | det |
| 8 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Yagá | compound |
| 9 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 obeyed | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 shove | mark |
| 13 | shove | shove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shove | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 oven | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oven | det |
| 17 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shove | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the Bába Yagá | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shove | to-infinitive | the Bába Yagá not said here | Yagá | the oven | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into oven=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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