Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 99
When they entered the sitting-room, the Baba Yaga stretched herself out at full length, and said to Vasilissa:
Who acts: gates, Baba Yaga · What happens: enter, stretch out, say · To what, where: sitting room, Yaga, full length, Vasilissa · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 5 | sitting | sitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Yaga | det |
| 10 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | compound |
| 11 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stretched | nsubj |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 stretched | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 stretched | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 length | amod |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Vasilissa | case |
| 22 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | gates = gate | the sitting room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | past | the Baba Yaga | Yaga | full length | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Baba Yaga not said here | Vasilissa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vasilissa=Recipient |
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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