Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 62
They ran hard away, but when they turned round there was Bába Yagá running after them.
Who acts: doors, Bába · What happens: run away, turn round, run · To what, where: Bába
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 (doors, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 turned | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 14 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bába | flat |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Bába | acl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 running | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | doors = door | away, hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn round | past | doors = door | Bába | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | Bába not said here | after doors = door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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