Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 3
The Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl was gone, and took to beating the Cat, and abusing it for not having scratched the girl's eyes out. "
Who acts: Baba Yaga, girl, abusing · What happens: rush, see, be, take, beat, abuse · To what, where: hut, Cat, Yaga, eyes · 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, girl, abusing), 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 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | cop |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 beating | mark |
| 19 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 took | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Cat | det |
| 21 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beating | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 scratched | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 scratched | cc |
| 24 | abusing | abuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 scratched | csubj:pass |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 abusing | obj |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 having | mark |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 having | advmod |
| 28 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 scratched | aux |
| 29 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 took | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 girl | det |
| 31 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 girl | case |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 scratched | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 scratched | compound:prt |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the Baba Yaga | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the girl | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | beat | gerund | the Cat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme | |||||
| 6 | abuse | gerund | Yaga | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | scratch out | gerund · perfect | abusing | the girl's eyes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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