Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 10
He walked and walked, and came to a dense forest: in the forest stood a hut, in the hut lived a Baba Yaga.
Who acts: Prince, hut · What happens: walk, come, stand, live · To what, where: dense forest, hut, forest, Baba Yaga
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hut), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 10 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forest | amod |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hut | det |
| 18 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hut | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hut | det |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stood | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Yaga | det |
| 25 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Yaga | compound |
| 26 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | Prince not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Prince not said here | a dense forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | Prince not said here | a hut | the forest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme in forest=Destination | |||
| 5 | live | past | the hut | a Baba Yaga | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yaga=Location |
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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