Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 138
The Baba Yaga examined everything, was vexed that there was nothing to be angry about, and said:
Who acts: Baba Yaga, nothing · What happens: examine, vex, be, say · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here
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, nothing), 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 examined | nsubj |
| 4 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 examined | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vexed | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vexed | aux:pass |
| 8 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 examined | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vexed | ccomp |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 was | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 angry | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nothing | acl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 angry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 examined | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | the Baba Yaga | everything | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vex | past · passive | the Baba Yaga not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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