Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 106

Then she is told to wait upon the Baba Yaga's children in the bath-room.

Who acts: sparrow · What happens: tell, wait · To what, where: sparrow, bath room · 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 (sparrow), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Yaga	det
9	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Yaga	compound
10	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 children	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Yaga	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wait	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
15	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 room	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bath	punct
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		sparrow			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	sparrow not said here			the bath room		upon the Baba Yaga's children	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon child=Location

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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