Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 118
Vasilissa awoke very early, but the Baba Yaga was already up.
Who acts: Vasilissa, Baba Yaga · What happens: awake, be
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, 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 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 awoke | nsubj |
| 2 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 up | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 up | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Yaga | det |
| 8 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Yaga | compound |
| 9 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 up | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 up | cop |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 up | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 awoke | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Vasilissa | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Baba Yaga | up 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/118/