Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 58
His three sisters go to look for him, and each of them in turn finds out where he is and attempts to carry him off, after sending the Baba Yaga to sleep and smearing her eyelids with pitch.
Who acts: three sisters, each, story · What happens: go, look, find out, be, attempt, carry off · To what, where: story, Baba Yaga, eyelids · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sisters, each, story), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finds | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finds | cc |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 finds | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 each | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 turn | case |
| 15 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 each | nmod |
| 16 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 finds | compound:prt |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 is | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 is | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 finds | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 attempts | cc |
| 22 | attempts | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 finds | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 attempts | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 carry | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sending | punct |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 sending | mark |
| 29 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 carry | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Yaga | det |
| 31 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Yaga | compound |
| 32 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sending | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sending | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 smearing | cc |
| 36 | smearing | smear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 sending | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 smearing | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 pitch | case |
| 40 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 smearing | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | story's three sisters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | story's three sisters not said here | for story | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out | present | each | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | present | story | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | attempt | present | each not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | carry off not said to happen | to-infinitive | each not said here | story | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | send | gerund | each not said here | the Baba Yaga | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yaga=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sleep | to-infinitive | each not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | smear | gerund | each not said here | variant's eyelids | with pitch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eyelid=Destination with pitch=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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