Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 73

It was only towards the evening that she reached the clearing on which stood the dwelling of the Baba Yaga.

Who acts: harm, horse, clearing · What happens: be, reach, stand · To what, where: clearing, 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 (harm, horse, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 evening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evening	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 evening	advmod
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evening	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clearing	det
11	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 clearing	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dwelling	det
16	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Yaga	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Yaga	det
19	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Yaga	compound
20	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 dwelling	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is	past	harm		towards the evening	tree rules
2	reach	past	horse	the clearing		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent clearing=Theme
3	stand	past	the clearing	the dwelling of the Baba Yaga		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwelling=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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