Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 59
But the two elder sisters are caught on their way home by the Baba Yaga, and terribly scratched and torn.
What happens: catch, scratch, tear · To what, where: two elder sisters, way
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 caught | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 4 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sisters | compound |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 way | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Yaga | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Yaga | det |
| 14 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yaga | compound |
| 15 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scratched | cc |
| 18 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 19 scratched | advmod |
| 19 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 torn | cc |
| 21 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 scratched | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · passive | the two elder sisters | sisters's way by the Baba Yaga | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scratch | participle | terribly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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