Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 88
The Baba Yaga places them in her mortar, pounds them to bits, and buries their remains under a stone.
What happens: bury · To what, where: remains, stone
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: 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 | 4 places | det |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 places | compound |
| 3 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 places | compound |
| 4 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 places | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mortar | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 places | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pounds | punct |
| 10 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 places | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pounds | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bits | case |
| 13 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pounds | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buries | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buries | cc |
| 16 | buries | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 places | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 remains | nmod:poss |
| 18 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 buries | obj |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 stone | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buries | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 places | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present | bits's remains | a stone | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent remains=Theme under stone=Destination |
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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