Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 112
The Baba Yaga has set me a heavy task, and threatens to eat me if I don't do it all.
Who acts: I · What happens: set, threaten, eat, not do · To what, where: Baba Yaga, me, need
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 (I), 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 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 set | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 task | det |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 task | amod |
| 9 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threatens | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threatens | cc |
| 12 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 threatens | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 eat | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 it | det |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · perfect · passive | the Baba Yaga | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | threaten | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | need | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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