Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 46

In one of the numerous stories[172] about the Baba Yaga, four heroes are wandering about the world together; when they come to a dense forest in which a small izba, or hut, is twirling round on "a fowl's leg."

Who acts: four heroes, heroes, small izba · What happens: wonder, come, twirl · To what, where: dense forest

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 (four heroes, heroes, small izba), 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	18 wandering	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stories	amod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 172	punct
8	172	172	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 stories	appos
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 172	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 Yaga	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Yaga	det
12	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Yaga	compound
13	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stories	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 heroes	nummod
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wandering	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wandering	aux
18	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wandering	obl
22	together	together	ADV	_	18 wandering	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 come	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wandering	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 forest	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 forest	det
29	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 forest	amod
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 twirling	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 izba	det
34	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 izba	amod
35	izba	izba	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 twirling	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hut	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 hut	cc
38	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 izba	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 izba	punct
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 twirling	aux
41	twirling	twirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 forest	acl:relcl
42	round	round	ADV	_	41 twirling	advmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	48 leg	case
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 leg	punct
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 fowl	det
46	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 leg	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 fowl	case
48	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 twirling	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present · progressive	four heroes		in one of the numerous stories about the Baba Yaga; about the world; together property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus
2	come	present	heroes = hero	a dense forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
3	twirl	present · progressive	a small izba or hut	a dense forest	on a fowl's leg; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in which=Source on leg=Trajectory

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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