Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 54
We have already dealt with one specimen of the skazkas of this class, the story of Vasilissa, who is sent to the Baba Yaga's for a light.
Who acts: We · What happens: deal, send · To what, where: story, Baba Yaga
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dealt | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dealt | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 dealt | advmod |
| 4 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 specimen | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 specimen | nummod |
| 7 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dealt | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 skazkas | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skazkas | det |
| 10 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 specimen | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 class | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 class | det |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skazkas | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 story | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 specimen | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Vasilissa | case |
| 18 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 story | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux:pass |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 story | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Yaga | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Yaga | det |
| 25 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Yaga | compound |
| 26 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Yaga | case |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 light | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 light | det |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dealt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | present · perfect | We | with one specimen of the skazkas of this class and the story of Vasilissa | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with specimen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present · passive | the story of Vasilissa | the Baba Yaga | for a light | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to yaga=Destination |
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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