Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 131
Towards evening Vasilissa got the table ready, and awaited the Baba Yaga.
Who acts: Towards evening · What happens: get, await · To what, where: table, Baba Yaga
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 (Towards evening), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 evening | appos |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 awaited | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 awaited | cc |
| 10 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Yaga | det |
| 12 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Yaga | compound |
| 13 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 awaited | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Towards evening | the table | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | await | past | Towards evening not said here | the Baba Yaga | 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.
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