Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 98
The gates opened, and the Baba Yaga drove in, whistling as she went, and after her followed Vasilissa; and then everything shut to again.
Who acts: gates, Baba Yaga, Yaga · What happens: open, drive in, whistle, go, follow · To what, where: Vasilissa
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 (gates, Baba Yaga, Yaga), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gates | det |
| 2 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drove | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drove | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Yaga | det |
| 7 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Yaga | compound |
| 8 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 drove | nsubj |
| 9 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 drove | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whistling | punct |
| 12 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 drove | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whistling | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 followed | cc |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 followed | mark |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 21 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shut | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shut | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 shut | advmod |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 shut | nsubj |
| 26 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 again | mark |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 shut | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drive in | past | the Baba Yaga | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whistle | gerund | the Baba Yaga not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Yaga | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | past | Yaga | Vasilissa | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vasilissa=Theme |
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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