Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 109
The Baba Yaga is highly pleased, calls for a "samovar" (or urn), and invites her young bath-woman to drink tea with her.
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: be, call, invite, drink · To what, where: young bath woman, tea · 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 (Baba Yaga), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Yaga | det |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Yaga | compound |
| 3 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 5 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 calls | punct |
| 8 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 samovar | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 samovar | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 samovar | punct |
| 12 | samovar | samovar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 samovar | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 urn | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 urn | cc |
| 16 | urn | urn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 samovar | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 urn | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 invites | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 invites | cc |
| 20 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 calls | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 woman | nmod:poss |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 23 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woman | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bath | punct |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 invites | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 drink | mark |
| 27 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 invites | advcl |
| 28 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drink | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drink | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Baba Yaga | highly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present | the Baba Yaga not said here | for a samovar | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for samovar=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | invite | present | the Baba Yaga not said here | sparrow's young bath woman | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | the Baba Yaga not said here | tea | with sparrow | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=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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