Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 105

So the girl sat down behind the loom, and the Baba Yaga went outside, and said to her servant-maid:

Who acts: girl, Baba Yaga · What happens: sit down, go, say · To what, where: loom, servant maid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 loom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loom	det
8	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
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	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
15	outside	outside	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 maid	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 maid	nmod:poss
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 maid	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 servant	punct
23	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the girl		the loom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind loom=Location
2	go	past	the Baba Yaga			outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the girl not said here	Yaga's servant maid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient

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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