Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 122
The Baba Yaga went out into the courtyard and whistled--before her appeared a mortar with a pestle and a broom.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, Yaga · What happens: go out, whistle, appear · To what, where: courtyard, mortar
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, 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 | 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 | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 courtyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 whistled | cc |
| 10 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | mark |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whistled | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mortar | det |
| 16 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pestle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pestle | det |
| 19 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 broom | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 broom | det |
| 22 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pestle | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Baba Yaga | the courtyard | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | whistle | past | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | Yaga | a mortar | with a pestle and a broom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mortar=Theme |
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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