Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 85
Before taking leave of the Baba Yaga, we may glance at a malevolent monster, who seems to be her male counterpart.
Who acts: we, malevolent monster · What happens: take, glance, seem, be · To what, where: leave, male counterpart
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 (we, malevolent monster), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 taking | mark |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 glance | advcl |
| 3 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| 4 | of | of | 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 leave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 taking | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 glance | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 glance | aux |
| 11 | glance | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 monster | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 monster | det |
| 14 | malevolent | malevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 monster | amod |
| 15 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glance | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seems | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seems | nsubj |
| 18 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 monster | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 counterpart | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 counterpart | cop |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 counterpart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 counterpart | amod |
| 23 | counterpart | counterpart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seems | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 glance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | we not said here | leave of the Baba Yaga | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glance | may | we | at a malevolent monster | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at monster=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | a malevolent monster | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a malevolent monster not said here | monster's male counterpart | tree rules |
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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