Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 86
In the story referred to, Ivan Devich (Ivan the servant-maid's son) meets a Baba Yaga, who plucks one of her hairs, gives it to him, and says, "Tie three knots and then blow."
Who acts: Ivan, Baba Yaga · What happens: refer, meet, pluck, give, say, tie · To what, where: story, Baba Yaga, one, Yaga, Ivan, three knots · 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 (Ivan, Baba Yaga), 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 | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meets | obl |
| 4 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 story | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 referred | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 7 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 meets | nsubj |
| 8 | Devich | Devich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ivan | flat |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ivan | punct |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ivan | appos |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maid | det |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maid | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 servant | punct |
| 14 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 maid | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Ivan | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ivan | punct |
| 18 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Yaga | det |
| 20 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Yaga | compound |
| 21 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 meets | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 plucks | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 plucks | nsubj |
| 24 | plucks | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Yaga | acl:relcl |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 plucks | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hairs | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gives | punct |
| 30 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 plucks | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gives | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gives | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 says | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 says | cc |
| 36 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 meets | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Tie | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Tie | punct |
| 39 | Tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 says | ccomp |
| 40 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 knots | nummod |
| 41 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Tie | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 blow | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 blow | advmod |
| 44 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 Tie | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 meets | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | participle | the story not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | Ivan | a Baba Yaga | the story | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yaga=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | pluck | present | a Baba Yaga | one of maid's hairs | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | present | a Baba Yaga not said here | Yaga | Ivan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | tie in a quote | infinitive | three knots | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | |||||
| 7 | blow in a quote | infinitive | then | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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