Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 125
Vasilissa was left alone, so she examined the Baba Yaga's house, wondered at the abundance there was in everything, and remained lost in thought as to which work she ought to take to first.
Who acts: Yaga · What happens: leave, examine, wonder, lose, take · To what, where: Vasilissa, house, abundance, thought
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 (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 | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 left | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 examined | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 examined | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 examined | nsubj |
| 8 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Yaga | det |
| 10 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | compound |
| 11 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Yaga | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 examined | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondered | punct |
| 15 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 examined | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 abundance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 abundance | det |
| 18 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wondered | obl |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 abundance | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 everything | case |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 was | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lost | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lost | cc |
| 25 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 left | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 thought | case |
| 28 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 32 work | case |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 as | fixed |
| 31 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 32 work | det |
| 32 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | nsubj |
| 34 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 take | aux |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 work | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 first | case |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Vasilissa | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | Yaga | the Baba Yaga's house | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Yaga not said here | the abundance | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | thought | as which work | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in thought=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | take | ought | Yaga | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to first=Result |
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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