Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 39
Thereupon the stepmother went to live in another house; and near that house was a dense forest, and in a clearing in that forest there stood a hut,[187] and in the hut there lived a Baba Yaga.
Who acts: stepmother, house, clearing · What happens: go, live, be, stand · To what, where: house, dense forest, hut, 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 (stepmother, house, clearing), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmother | det |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 forest | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 forest | cc |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forest | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forest | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clearing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 clearing | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 clearing | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 clearing | det |
| 23 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clearing | nmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 stood | advmod |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hut | det |
| 30 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 187 | punct |
| 32 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 33 187 | punct |
| 33 | 187 | 187 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 stood | obl |
| 34 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 33 187 | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lived | cc |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hut | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hut | det |
| 38 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lived | obl |
| 39 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 lived | advmod |
| 40 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stood | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 Yaga | det |
| 42 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Yaga | compound |
| 43 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 lived | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the stepmother | thereupon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the stepmother not said here | another house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that house | a dense forest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | a clearing in that forest | a hut | there | 187 obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | live | past | a clearing in that forest not said here | a Baba Yaga | the hut; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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