Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 76

In several of the stories which have already been quoted, a prominent part is played by the Baba Yaga, a female fiend whose name has given rise to much philological discussion of a somewhat unsatisfactory nature.

Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: quote, play, give, discuss · To what, where: several stories, prominent part, name, unsatisfactory nature

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), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 stories	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 quoted	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 quoted	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 quoted	aux
8	already	already	ADV	_	10 quoted	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 quoted	aux:pass
10	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 played	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	prominent	prominent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 played	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 played	aux:pass
16	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 quoted	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 Yaga	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Yaga	det
19	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Yaga	compound
20	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 played	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fiend	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fiend	det
23	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fiend	amod
24	fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Yaga	appos
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 name	nmod:poss
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	nsubj:pass
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fiend	acl:relcl
29	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 discussion	case
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 discussion	amod
32	philological	philological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 discussion	amod
33	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rise	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 nature	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 nature	det
36	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	37 unsatisfactory	advmod
37	unsatisfactory	unsatisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nature	amod
38	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 discussion	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 quoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present · perfect · passive			the several stories	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	play	present · passive	the Baba Yaga	a prominent part		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	give	present · perfect · passive		name		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme
4	discuss			a unsatisfactory nature		nom discussion «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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