Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 102

In one story[180] the heroine is ordered to swing the cradle in which reposes a Baba Yaga's infant son, whom she is ordered to address in terms of respect when she sings him lullabies; in others she is told to wash a Baba Yaga's many children, whose appearance is usually unprepossessing.

Who acts: heroine, cradle, appearance · What happens: order, swing, repose, address, sing, tell · To what, where: heroine, one story, cradle, infant son, terms, lullabies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroine, cradle, appearance), 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	_	3 story	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 story	nummod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	obl
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 180	punct
5	180	180	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 story	appos
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 180	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heroine	det
8	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ordered	aux:pass
10	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 swing	mark
12	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ordered	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cradle	det
14	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swing	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 reposes	nsubj
17	reposes	repose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cradle	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Yaga	det
19	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Yaga	compound
20	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 son	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Yaga	case
22	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 son	amod
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reposes	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ordered	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 ordered	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ordered	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 ordered	aux:pass
28	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 son	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 address	mark
30	address	address	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ordered	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 terms	case
32	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 address	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 respect	case
34	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 terms	nmod
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 sings	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sings	nsubj
37	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 respect	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sings	obj
39	lullabies	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sings	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 others	case
42	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 told	obl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 told	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 told	aux:pass
45	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ordered	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 wash	mark
47	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 told	xcomp
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 Yaga	det
49	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Yaga	compound
50	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 children	nmod:poss
51	's	's	PART	_	50 Yaga	case
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 children	amod
53	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 wash	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 unprepossessing	punct
55	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	56 appearance	nmod:poss
56	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 unprepossessing	nsubj
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 unprepossessing	aux
58	usually	usually	ADV	_	59 unprepossessing	advmod
59	unprepossessing	unprepossess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 wash	advcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	present · passive		the heroine		one story		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swing not said to happen	to-infinitive	the heroine not said here	the cradle				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme
3	repose	present	the cradle	a Baba Yaga's infant son				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme
4	order	present · passive		heroine				tree rules
5	address not said to happen	to-infinitive	heroine not said here			terms of respect		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	present	heroine	lullabies	magic			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	present · passive		heroine		others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
8	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	heroine not said here	a Baba Yaga's many children				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
9	unprepossess	present · progressive	appearance				usually property	tree rules
10	term			respect				nom term «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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