Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 80

Sometimes, as in the next story, the Baba Yaga appears as the mistress of a mansion, which stands in a courtyard enclosed by a fence made of dead men's bones.

Who acts: Baba Yaga, mansion · What happens: appear, stand, enclose, make · To what, where: courtyard, fence

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, mansion), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 appears	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 story	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appears	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 story	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Yaga	det
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Yaga	compound
11	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 appears	nsubj
12	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 mistress	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mistress	det
15	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appears	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mansion	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mansion	det
18	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mistress	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stands	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stands	nsubj
21	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mansion	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 courtyard	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 courtyard	det
24	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stands	obl
25	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 courtyard	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 fence	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fence	det
28	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 enclosed	obl
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fence	acl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 bones	case
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 men	amod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bones	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 men	case
34	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 made	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	the Baba Yaga			as the next story; as the mistress of a mansion; sometimes property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	present	a mansion		a courtyard		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location
3	enclose	participle		a courtyard not said here		by a fence	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	make	participle		a fence not said here		of dead men's bones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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