Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 59
I'm sent to the Baba Yaga's for a light.
What happens: send · To what, where: I, 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: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Yaga | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Yaga | det |
| 6 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yaga | compound |
| 7 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Yaga | case |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · passive | I | the Baba Yaga | for a light | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to yaga=Destination |
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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