Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 105
Then the Baba Yaga lay down to sleep, saying:--
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: lie down, sleep, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lay | 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 | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lay | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lay | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the Baba Yaga | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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