Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 61
When the Baba Yaga awakes, she tells Jeremiah to scratch her eyes open, but he refuses, reminding her that, long as he has lived under her roof, she has never in any way regaled him, whereas the "fair maiden" had no sooner arrived than she treated him to butter.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, Yaga, Jeremiah, fair maiden · What happens: awake, tell, scratch, refuse, remind, live · To what, where: Jeremiah, eyes, that, roof, way · 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 (Baba Yaga, Yaga, Jeremiah, fair maiden), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 awakes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Yaga | det |
| 3 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yaga | compound |
| 4 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 awakes | nsubj |
| 5 | awakes | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tells | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 awakes | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tells | nsubj |
| 8 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jeremiah | Jeremiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 scratch | mark |
| 11 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tells | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scratch | obj |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scratch | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuses | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 refuses | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 refuses | nsubj |
| 18 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tells | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reminding | punct |
| 20 | reminding | remind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 refuses | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 that | nmod:poss |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 reminding | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reminding | parataxis |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 lived | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lived | aux |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 long | advcl |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 roof | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 roof | nmod:poss |
| 31 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 has | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 has | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 refuses | conj |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 regaled | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 way | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 way | det |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 regaled | obl |
| 39 | regaled | regale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 has | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 regaled | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 maiden | punct |
| 42 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 46 maiden | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 maiden | det |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 maiden | punct |
| 45 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 maiden | amod |
| 46 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 had | nsubj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 maiden | punct |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 regaled | conj |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 sooner | det |
| 50 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 arrived | advmod |
| 51 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 had | advcl |
| 52 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 54 treated | mark |
| 53 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 treated | nsubj |
| 54 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 arrived | advcl |
| 55 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 treated | obj |
| 56 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 butter | case |
| 57 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 treated | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | present | the Baba Yaga | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Yaga | Jeremiah | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jeremiah=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | scratch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Yaga not said here | Yaga's eyes | open property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | refuse | present | Jeremiah | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remind speech: other | gerund | Jeremiah not said here | that | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | live | present · perfect | Jeremiah | Yaga's roof | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under roof=Location | ||||
| 7 | have | present | Yaga | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not regale | past | Yaga not said here | Jeremiah | any way | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 9 | have | past | the fair maiden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | arrive | past | the fair maiden not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 11 | treat | past | Yaga | Jeremiah | to butter | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme to butter=be' |
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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