Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 35
But after a time a Baba Yaga took to haunting their hut and sucking the breasts of the merchant's daughter.
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: take, haunt, suck · To what, where: hut, breasts
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Yaga | det |
| 6 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yaga | compound |
| 7 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 haunting | mark |
| 10 | haunting | haunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hut | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 haunting | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sucking | cc |
| 14 | sucking | suck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 haunting | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 breasts | det |
| 16 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sucking | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 merchant | case |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breasts | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a Baba Yaga | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | haunt | gerund | a Baba Yaga not said here | meals's hut | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hut=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | suck | gerund | a Baba Yaga not said here | the breasts of the merchant's daughter | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source |
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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