Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 93
The Baba Yaga usually lives by herself, but sometimes she appears in the character of the house-mother.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, horse · What happens: live, appear · To what, where: character
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, horse), 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 | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 lives | advmod |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 herself | case |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 lives | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appears | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 appears | cc |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 appears | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appears | nsubj |
| 12 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lives | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 character | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 character | det |
| 15 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appears | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mother | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 house | punct |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 character | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Baba Yaga | by horse; usually property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by herself=Location | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | horse | the character of the house mother | sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in character=Location |
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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