Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 28

In one of the numerous variants of this story[162] the heroine is sent by her husband's mother to the Baba Yaga's, and the advice which saves her comes from her husband.

Who acts: mother, advice, story · What happens: send, save, come, vary · To what, where: heroine, advice

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 (mother, advice, story), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sent	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 variants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 variants	det
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 variants	amod
6	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 variants	nmod
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 162	punct
11	162	162	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 story	appos
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 162	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heroine	det
14	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	aux:pass
16	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	by	by	ADP	_	21 mother	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 husband	case
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 Yaga	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Yaga	det
24	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Yaga	compound
25	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Yaga	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 comes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 comes	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 advice	det
30	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comes	nsubj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 saves	nsubj
32	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 advice	acl:relcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saves	obj
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	parataxis
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 husband	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 husband	nmod:poss
37	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comes	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive	girl's husband's mother	the heroine	in one of the numerous variants of this story; to the Baba Yaga	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in one=Destination
2	save	present	the advice	advice		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	come	present	the advice		from girl's husband	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from husband=Initial_Location
4	vary		this story			nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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