Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 98
Accordingly the Baba Yaga's "trusty servants" cut off the heads of her daughters instead of those of her sons-in-law.
What happens: cut off · To what, where: trusty servants
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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 10 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Yaga | det |
| 3 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yaga | compound |
| 4 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Yaga | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 servants | punct |
| 7 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servants | amod |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heads | det |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 daughters | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heads | nmod |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 19 those | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 cut | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sons | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 those | nmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 law | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 law | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sons | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle · passive | the Baba Yaga's trusty servants | instead those; accordingly property | tree rules |
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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