Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 112
The Baba Yaga gives the same orders as before to the new-comer, but that conceited young person fails to carry them out.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, that, conceited young person · What happens: give, person, fail, not carry out · To what, where: same orders, new comer, persons
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, that, conceited young person), 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 | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 orders | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 orders | amod |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gives | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 comer | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 comer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 comer | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comer | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 new | punct |
| 14 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fails | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 fails | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 person | nsubj |
| 18 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fails | nsubj |
| 21 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 carry | mark |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fails | xcomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carry | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 carry | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the Baba Yaga | the same orders | the new comer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to comer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | person | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fail | present | conceited young person | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not carry out | to-infinitive | conceited young person not said here | persons = person | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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