Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 17

Then the Baba Yaga said: "Go, my child, to the sea-shore; there will fly thither twelve spoonbills, which will turn into fair maidens, and begin bathing; do you steal quietly up and lay your hands on the eldest maiden's shift.

Who acts: Baba Yaga, you, eldest maiden · What happens: say, go, fly, turn, begin, steal · To what, where: child, sea shore, twelve spoonbills, fair maidens, bathing, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Baba Yaga, you, eldest maiden), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
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	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
8	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shore	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 shore	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shore	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Go	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fly	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 fly	expl
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	aux
21	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Go	conj
22	thither	thither	ADV	_	23 twelve	advmod
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 spoonbills	nummod
24	spoonbills	spoonbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fly	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turn	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 turn	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 turn	aux
28	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fly	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 maidens	case
30	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 maidens	amod
31	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 turn	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 begin	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 begin	cc
34	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	advcl
35	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 begin	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 steal	punct
37	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 steal	aux
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 steal	nsubj
39	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
40	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	41 up	advmod
41	up	up	ADV	_	39 steal	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lay	cc
43	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 steal	conj
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 hands	nmod:poss
45	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lay	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	51 shift	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 maiden	det
48	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 maiden	amod
49	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 shift	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 maiden	case
51	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lay	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Baba Yaga			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive		my child	the sea shore		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location
3	fly in a quote	future		twelve spoonbills	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spoonbill=Theme
4	turn in a quote	future			fair maidens		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory
5	begin in a quote	present		bathing			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bathing=Eventuality
6	steal in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lay in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your hands	the eldest maiden's shift		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shift=Destination
8	shift in a quote		the eldest maiden				nom shift «event transitive»: 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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