Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 25
In the latter group the principal characters are the Baba Yaga, or Hag, her close connection the Witch, and the Female Snake.
Who acts: principal characters · What happens: be · To what, where: Baba Yaga, latter group
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (principal characters), 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 | _ | 4 group | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 3 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 group | amod |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 characters | det |
| 6 | principal | principal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characters | compound |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Yaga | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Yaga | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Yaga | det |
| 10 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | compound |
| 11 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hag | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Hag | cc |
| 14 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 connection | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 connection | nmod:poss |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 connection | amod |
| 18 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | appos |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Witch | det |
| 20 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 connection | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Snake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Snake | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Snake | det |
| 24 | Female | Female | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Snake | compound |
| 25 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yaga | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the principal characters | the Baba Yaga and the Female Snake | the latter group | tree rules |
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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