Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 26
In a third variant of the story,[84] they are snakes which are killed by the hero, Ivan Koshkin (Cat's son), and it is a Baba Yaga, or Hag, who undertakes to revenge their deaths and those of their wives, her daughters.
Who acts: adventures, hero, story, Baba Yaga · What happens: be, kill, undertake, vary, die · To what, where: snakes, Baba Yaga, revenge
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, hero, story, Baba Yaga), 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 variant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 variant | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 variant | amod |
| 4 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 variant | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 84 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 84 | punct |
| 10 | 84 | 84 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 story | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 84 | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 snakes | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 snakes | cop |
| 14 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 variant | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 snakes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hero | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hero | det |
| 20 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ivan | punct |
| 22 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hero | appos |
| 23 | Koshkin | Koshkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ivan | flat |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 25 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Cat | case |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Ivan | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Yaga | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Yaga | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 Yaga | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Yaga | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Yaga | det |
| 34 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Yaga | compound |
| 35 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 snakes | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Hag | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Hag | cc |
| 38 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Yaga | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 undertakes | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 undertakes | nsubj |
| 41 | undertakes | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Yaga | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 revenge | mark |
| 43 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 undertakes | obj |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 deaths | nmod:poss |
| 45 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 revenge | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 those | cc |
| 47 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 deaths | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 wives | case |
| 49 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 wives | nmod:poss |
| 50 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 those | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 daughters | punct |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 53 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 deaths | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 variant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | adventures = adventure | snakes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | present · passive | the hero | snakes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | story | a Baba Yaga or Hag | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | undertake | present | a Baba Yaga or Hag | revenge and adventures's deaths and Hag's daughters | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | vary | the story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | die | adventures = adventure | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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