Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 111
This present excites the cupidity of her stepmother, who sends her own daughter to the Baba Yaga's, hoping that she will bring back a similar treasure.
Who acts: present, stepmother · What happens: excite, send, hope, bring back · To what, where: cupidity, own daughter, Baba Yaga, similar treasure · 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 (present, stepmother), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 present | det |
| 2 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excites | nsubj |
| 3 | excites | excite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cupidity | det |
| 5 | cupidity | cupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excites | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stepmother | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cupidity | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sends | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sends | nsubj |
| 11 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stepmother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sends | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Yaga | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Yaga | det |
| 17 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yaga | compound |
| 18 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sends | obl |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Yaga | case |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hoping | punct |
| 21 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sends | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | aux |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hoping | ccomp |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 treasure | det |
| 28 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 treasure | amod |
| 29 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 excites | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excite | present | this present | the cupidity of present's stepmother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cupidity=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | send | present | present's stepmother | present's own daughter | the Baba Yaga | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to yaga=Destination | |||
| 3 | hope | gerund | present's stepmother not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring back | future | present | a similar treasure | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
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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