Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 153
They all sat down to table, and the witch opened the oven, took out Alenka's baked body, and served it up.
Who acts: guests, witch · What happens: sit down, open, take out, bake, serve up · To what, where: oven, baked body, body
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, witch), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sat | advmod |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opened | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oven | det |
| 13 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | Alenka | Alenka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Alenka | case |
| 19 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 body | amod |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 served | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 served | cc |
| 23 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 served | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 served | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | guests = guest | to table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the witch | the oven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oven=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take out | past | guests = guest not said here | Alenka's baked body | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bake | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | serve up | past | guests = guest not said here | body | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
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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