Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 9

The Baba Yaga who figures in it is, as is so often the case, replaced by a Snake in the variant to which allusion has already been made.

Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: figure, be, replace, make · To what, where: Yaga, case, variant, allusion

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. 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), 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	3 Yaga	det
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Yaga	compound
3	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 case	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 figures	nsubj
5	figures	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Yaga	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 figures	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 case	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	15 case	case
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 case	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 case	advmod
13	often	often	ADV	_	15 case	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 case	det
15	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 replaced	punct
17	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 case	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 Snake	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Snake	det
20	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replaced	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 variant	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 variant	det
23	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replaced	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	26 allusion	det
26	allusion	allusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	nsubj:pass
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux
28	already	already	ADV	_	30 made	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 made	aux:pass
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 variant	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 case	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	figure	present	the Baba Yaga		Yaga		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	the Baba Yaga			as the case; often property	tree rules
3	replace	participle		the case not said here	the variant	by a Snake	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
4	make	present · perfect · passive		which allusion			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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