Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 115
So the Baba Yaga went away again, and the girl gave the Cat a piece of bacon, and asked:
Who acts: Baba Yaga, girl · What happens: go away, give, ask · To what, where: piece, Cat
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 (Baba Yaga, girl), 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 | _ | 5 went | 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 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cat | det |
| 14 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bacon | case |
| 18 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the Baba Yaga | again | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | the girl | a piece of bacon | the Cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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