Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 61
This leads to a full confession, on hearing which Ivan "runs to the closet, takes those strips out of the Baba Yaga, and applies them to their backs," which immediately become cured.
Who acts: This, Ivan, backs · What happens: lead, run, take, apply, become, cure · To what, where: hearing, closet, strips, Baba Yaga, comrades
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 (This, Ivan, backs), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 leads | nsubj |
| 2 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 confession | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 confession | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 confession | amod |
| 6 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leads | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hearing | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hearing | case |
| 9 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confession | appos |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 runs | obj |
| 11 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 runs | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ivan | punct |
| 13 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hearing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 closet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 closet | det |
| 16 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 runs | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 takes | punct |
| 18 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leads | conj |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 strips | det |
| 20 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 takes | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 Yaga | case |
| 22 | of | of | 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 | 20 strips | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 applies | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 applies | cc |
| 28 | applies | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leads | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 applies | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 backs | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 backs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 applies | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 backs | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 backs | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 become | nsubj |
| 36 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 37 become | advmod |
| 37 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 backs | acl:relcl |
| 38 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 become | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | This | to a full confession | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to confession=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | present | Ivan | hearing | the closet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme to closet=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | This not said here | that strips | the Baba Yaga | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent strip=Theme out yaga=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | apply in a quote | present | This not said here | comrades = comrade | to comrades's backs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | become | present | comrades's backs | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | cure | participle | comrades's backs not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |
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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