Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 174
"It's just as well," said the Baba Yaga, "that you've only asked about what you saw out of doors, not indoors!
Who acts: much, Baba Yaga, you · What happens: be, say, ask, see out · To what, where: that, doors · 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 (much, Baba Yaga, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 well | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Yaga | det |
| 11 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yaga | compound |
| 12 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yaga | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yaga | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 asked | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 asked | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 asked | advmod |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 what | case |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 asked | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 doors | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 doors | case |
| 26 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 saw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 indoors | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 indoors | advmod |
| 29 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 23 saw | advmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | much | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Baba Yaga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect | you | that | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Recipient about what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see out in a quote | past | you | doors | indoors property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |
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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