Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 103
One girl, for instance, is ordered by a Baba Yaga to heat the bath, but the fuel given her for the purpose turns out to be dead men's bones.
Who acts: Baba, fuel · What happens: order, heat, give, turn out, be · To what, where: One girl, bath, fuel, bones
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 (Baba, fuel), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 girl | nummod |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 instance | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 instance | case |
| 5 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | aux:pass |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Baba | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Baba | det |
| 11 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obl:agent |
| 12 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Baba | flat |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 heat | mark |
| 14 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bath | det |
| 16 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heat | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turns | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 turns | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fuel | det |
| 20 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turns | nsubj |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 fuel | acl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 purpose | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 purpose | det |
| 25 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obl |
| 26 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 turns | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bones | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bones | cop |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 men | amod |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bones | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 men | case |
| 33 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 turns | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present · passive | a Baba | One girl and instance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heat | to-infinitive | a Baba not said here | the bath | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bath=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | the fuel not said here | fuel | for the purpose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme for purpose=Asset | |||
| 4 | turn out | present | the fuel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the fuel not said here | dead men's bones | tree rules |
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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