Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 108
These, which are the Baba Yaga's children, she soaps over and otherwise treats in the approved Russian-bath style, and afterwards she does as much for their mother.
Who acts: These, sparrow · What happens: be, soap over, treat, approve · To what, where: children, approved bath style
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 (These, 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 children | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 children | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 children | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Yaga | det |
| 6 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yaga | compound |
| 7 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Yaga | case |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 soaps | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 soaps | nsubj |
| 12 | soaps | soap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 children | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 soaps | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 treats | cc |
| 15 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 16 treats | advmod |
| 16 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 soaps | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 style | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 style | det |
| 19 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 style | amod |
| 20 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bath | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Russian | punct |
| 22 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 style | compound |
| 23 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treats | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 much | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 much | cc |
| 26 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 much | nsubj |
| 28 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 much | aux |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soaps | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 mother | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 much | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | the Baba Yaga's children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | soap over | present | sparrow | the Baba Yaga's children not said here | over property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 3 | treat | present | sparrow not said here | the approved bath style | otherwise property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | approve | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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