Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 100

There stood a hut, and in it sat weaving the Baba Yaga, the Bony-shanks.

Who acts: hut · What happens: stand, sit, weave · To what, where: hut, Baba Yaga

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hut	det
4	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 sat	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
10	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Yaga	det
12	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Yaga	compound
13	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 weaving	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shanks	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shanks	det
16	Bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shanks	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Bony	punct
18	shanks	shank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Yaga	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past		a hut	there	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus
2	sit	past	hut			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weave	gerund	hut not said here	the Baba Yaga and the Bony shanks		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yaga=Product

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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