Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 58
The Baba Yaga appears as usual, and begins thumping him with her pestle; but he snatches it from her, beats her almost to death with it, cuts three strips out of her back, and then locks her up in a closet.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, Ivan · What happens: appear, begin, thump, snatch, beat, cut · To what, where: Ivan, Yaga, party, three strips, back, closet
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, Ivan), 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 appears | nsubj |
| 4 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 usual | case |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appears | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begins | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begins | cc |
| 9 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 appears | conj |
| 10 | thumping | thump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 begins | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thumping | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pestle | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pestle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thumping | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 snatches | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 snatches | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 snatches | nsubj |
| 18 | snatches | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 appears | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 snatches | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 snatches | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beats | punct |
| 23 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 snatches | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beats | obj |
| 25 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 27 death | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 death | case |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beats | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beats | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cuts | punct |
| 31 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 appears | parataxis |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 strips | nummod |
| 33 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cuts | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 back | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 back | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 back | nmod:poss |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cuts | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 locks | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 locks | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 locks | advmod |
| 41 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cuts | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 locks | obj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 locks | compound:prt |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 closet | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 closet | det |
| 46 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 locks | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the Baba Yaga | as usual | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | present | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | thump | gerund | the Baba Yaga not said here | Ivan | with party's pestle | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with pestle=Instrument | |||
| 4 | snatch | present | Ivan | Yaga | from party | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from she=Source | |||
| 5 | beat | present | Ivan not said here | party | to death result; with Yaga | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient to death=Result with it=Instrument | |||
| 6 | cut | present | three strips | party's back | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset strip=Product | ||||
| 7 | lock up | present | party | a closet | then | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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