Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 187
The Baba Yaga gave him food and drink, and bid him set about his business.
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: give, bid, set · To what, where: food, steed
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Yaga | det |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Yaga | compound |
| 3 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bid | cc |
| 11 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bid | obj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bid | xcomp |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 business | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 business | nmod:poss |
| 16 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Baba Yaga | food and drink | steed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 2 | bid | infinitive | the Baba Yaga not said here | steed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the Baba Yaga not said here | about steed's business | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about business=Destination |
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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