Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 101

Vasilissa lighted a splinter[189] at one of the skulls which were on the fence, and began fetching meat from the oven and setting it before the Baba Yaga; and meat enough had been provided for a dozen people.

Who acts: Vasilissa, skulls · What happens: light, be, begin, fetch, set, provide · To what, where: splinter, fence, meat, oven

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa, skulls), 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	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lighted	nsubj
2	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 splinter	det
4	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lighted	obj
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 189	punct
6	189	189	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 splinter	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 189	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lighted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 skulls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 skulls	det
12	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fence	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fence	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 fence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fence	det
17	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skulls	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lighted	conj
21	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 began	xcomp
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetching	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 oven	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 oven	det
25	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetching	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 setting	cc
27	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 fetching	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 setting	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	32 Yaga	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Yaga	det
31	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Yaga	compound
32	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 setting	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 provided	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 provided	cc
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 provided	nsubj:pass
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 meat	advmod
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 provided	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 provided	aux:pass
39	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lighted	parataxis
40	for	for	ADP	_	43 people	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 dozen	det
42	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 people	nummod
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 provided	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	Vasilissa	a splinter			at one of the skulls	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Product
2	is	past	the skulls		the fence			tree rules
3	begin	past	Vasilissa not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fetch	gerund	Vasilissa not said here	meat	the oven			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent meat=Theme from oven=Source
5	set	gerund	Vasilissa not said here	meat		before the Baba Yaga		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before yaga=Destination
6	provide	past · perfect · passive		meat			for dozen people	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for people=Beneficiary

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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