Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 62

In a story, for instance, of a boy who had been carried off by a Baba Yaga (a species of witch), we are told that when his sister came to his rescue she found him "sitting in an arm-chair, while the cat Jeremiah told him skazkas and sang him songs."

Who acts: Baba Yaga, sister, cat, boy · What happens: carry off, tell, come, find, sit, sing · To what, where: boy, we, story, rescue, arm chair, skazkas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baba Yaga, sister, cat, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 instance	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 instance	case
6	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 carried	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 carried	aux:pass
14	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 boy	acl:relcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 carried	compound:prt
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 Yaga	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Yaga	det
18	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Yaga	compound
19	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 species	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 species	det
22	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Yaga	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 witch	case
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 species	nmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 species	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux:pass
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 found	mark
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sister	nmod:poss
33	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 rescue	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 rescue	nmod:poss
37	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 found	nsubj
39	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 found	obj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 sitting	punct
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 found	advcl
43	in	in	ADP	_	47 chair	case
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 chair	det
45	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 chair	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 arm	punct
47	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sitting	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 told	punct
49	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 told	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 cat	det
51	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 told	nsubj
52	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 cat	appos
53	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	parataxis
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 told	iobj
55	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 told	iobj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 sang	cc
57	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 told	conj
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 sang	obj
59	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 sang	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	carry off	past · perfect · passive	a Baba Yaga	a boy			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		we		a story and a boy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	come	past	boy's sister			boy's rescue	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
4	find	past	sister	boy			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
5	sit in a quote	gerund	sister not said here			a arm chair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the cat		skazkas		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient skazka=Topic
7	sing speech: express in a quote	past	the cat not said here	songs	boy		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary song=Theme
8	rescue		boy				nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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