Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 63
Two of them get torn to pieces; the third succeeds in saving Ivanushka from the Baba Yaga, who is so vexed that she pinches her butter-bribed cat to death for not having awakened her when the rescue took place.
Who acts: third, rescue · What happens: tear, succeed, save, vex, pinch, bribe · To what, where: Two, Ivanushka, Baba, bribed cat, cat, place
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 (third, rescue), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Two | nmod |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 torn | aux:pass |
| 5 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 torn | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 succeeds | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 third | det |
| 10 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 succeeds | nsubj |
| 11 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 torn | conj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 saving | mark |
| 13 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 succeeds | advcl |
| 14 | Ivanushka | Ivanushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saving | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Baba | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Baba | det |
| 17 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saving | obl |
| 18 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Baba | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 vexed | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 vexed | aux:pass |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 vexed | advmod |
| 23 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Baba | acl:relcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 pinches | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pinches | nsubj |
| 26 | pinches | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 vexed | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 cat | nmod:poss |
| 28 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bribed | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 butter | punct |
| 30 | bribed | bribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 cat | amod |
| 31 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pinches | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 death | case |
| 33 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pinches | obl |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 awakened | mark |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 awakened | advmod |
| 36 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 awakened | aux |
| 37 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 pinches | advcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 awakened | obj |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 took | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 rescue | det |
| 41 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 took | nsubj |
| 42 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 awakened | advcl |
| 43 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 took | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | present · passive | Two of maids | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | succeed | present | the third | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | save | gerund | the third not said here | Ivanushka | the Baba | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ivanushka=Theme from baba=Source | |||
| 4 | vex | present · passive | the Baba | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | pinch | present | third | third's bribed cat | to death | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||
| 6 | bribe | participle | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | not awaken | gerund · perfect | third not said here | cat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | take | past | the rescue | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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