--- title: About two or three hours later Fílyushka smelt a smell of good roast… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: About two or three hours later Fílyushka smelt a smell of good roast meat, opened the door, and took out the daughter of the Yagá-Búra well cooked; buttered it over, put it into the frying-pan and covered it with a towel, and put it into the bunk; then he climbed up to the roof-tree and took away th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/) / 3 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 3 About two or three hours later Fílyushka smelt a smell of good roast meat, opened the door, and took out the daughter of the Yagá-Búra well cooked; buttered it over, put it into the frying-pan and covered it with a towel, and put it into the bunk; then he climbed up to the roof-tree and took away the business-day pestle and mortar of the Yagá-Búra. **Who acts:** Fílyushka, good roast meat · **What happens:** smelt, open, take out, cook, butter over, put · **To what, where:** smell, door, daughter, frying pan, bunk, roof tree This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fílyushka, good roast meat), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:28:3 # text = About two or three hours later Fílyushka smelt a smell of good roast meat, opened the door, and took out the daughter of the Yagá-Búra well cooked; buttered it over, put it into the frying-pan and covered it with a towel, and put it into the bunk; then he climbed up to the roof-tree and took away the business-day pestle and mortar of the Yagá-Búra. 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 7 Fílyushka Fílyushka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 smelt smelt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 Yagá Yagá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Búra Búra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 33 buttered butter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 over over ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 into into ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 bunk bunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ; ; PUNCT : _ 60 punct _ _ 58 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 60 advmod _ _ 59 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 61 up up ADP RP _ 60 compound:prt _ _ 62 to to ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 64 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 65 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 conj _ _ 69 away away ADP RP _ 68 compound:prt _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 71 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 72 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 71 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 compound _ _ 74 pestle pestle NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 75 and and CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 76 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 conj _ _ 77 of of ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 79 Yagá Yagá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 81 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 80 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 79 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 81 Búra Búra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 76 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 82 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smelt** | past | Fílyushka | a smell of good roast meat | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | past | Fílyushka *not said here* | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 3 | **take out** | past | Fílyushka *not said here* | the daughter of the Yagá Búra | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | | 4 | **cook** | participle | Fílyushka *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **butter over** | past | Fílyushka *not said here* | door | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | | 6 | **put** | infinitive | Fílyushka *not said here* | door | | the frying pan | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 7 | **cover** | past | Fílyushka *not said here* | door | | | | with a towel | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with towel=Theme | | 8 | **put** | infinitive | Fílyushka *not said here* | door | | the bunk | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 9 | **climb up** | past | Fílyushka | | | the roof tree | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination | | 10 | **take away** | past | Fílyushka *not said here* | the day pestle and mortar of the Yagá Búra | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme | | 11 | **smell** | | good roast meat | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/4/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/)