Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 3
There the Baba Yaga was storming and raging at her mares, and shrieking:--
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: storm, rage, shriek
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 Yaga | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Yaga | det |
| 3 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yaga | compound |
| 4 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 storming | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 storming | aux |
| 6 | storming | storm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 raging | cc |
| 8 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 storming | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 mares | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mares | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 raging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shrieking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrieking | cc |
| 14 | shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 storming | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 storming | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 storming | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm | past · progressive | the Baba Yaga | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | the Baba Yaga not said here | at Yaga's mares | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mare=Location | ||||
| 3 | shriek | gerund | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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