Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 42
But the girl always got home safe and sound; the doll used to show her the way, and never let her go near the Baba Yaga's dwelling.
Who acts: girl, doll · What happens: get, use, show, not let, go · To what, where: way, girl, dwelling
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 (girl, doll), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sound | cc |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 safe | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doll | det |
| 12 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | nsubj |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 show | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 dwelling | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Yaga | det |
| 27 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Yaga | compound |
| 28 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Yaga | case |
| 30 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the girl | always, home, safe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | the doll | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | the doll not said here | the way | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 4 | not let | infinitive | the doll not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | girl not said here | the Baba Yaga's dwelling | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near dwelling=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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