Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 74

The accuracy of this etymology is confirmed by the use, in the speech of the common people, of the designation _Yaga Baba_ for a quarrelsome, scolding old woman."

Who acts: use · What happens: confirm, scold, speak · To what, where: accuracy, old woman, common people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 accuracy	det
2	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confirmed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 etymology	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 etymology	det
5	etymology	etymology	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accuracy	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 confirmed	aux:pass
7	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 use	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 use	det
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confirmed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speech	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 speech	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 speech	det
14	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confirmed	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 people	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 speech	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 designation	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 designation	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 designation	det
22	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confirmed	obl
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Baba	punct
24	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Baba	compound
25	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 confirmed	obl
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Baba	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 quarrelsome	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 quarrelsome	det
29	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confirmed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 scolding	punct
31	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 confirmed	advcl
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 scolding	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 confirmed	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 confirmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	confirm	present · passive	the use	the accuracy of this etymology	of the designation; for a quarrelsome; Yaga Baba obl	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic
2	scold	gerund	the use not said here	old woman		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
3	speak			the common people		nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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