Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 23

But aunt's a Baba Yaga, and she wanted to eat me!"

Who acts: aunt, girl, Baba Yaga · What happens: be, want, eat · To what, where: Baba Yaga, me

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 (aunt, girl, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 Yaga	cc
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Yaga	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Yaga	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Yaga	det
5	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Yaga	compound
6	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Yaga	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Yaga	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Yaga	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	aunt	a Baba Yaga	tree rules
2	want	past	girl	a Baba Yaga not said here	tree rules
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	a Baba Yaga not said here	me	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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