Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 36
No sooner have the heroes gone off to the chase, than the Baba Yaga is there in a moment.
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: have, go off, be · To what, where: heroes
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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroes | det |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heroes | acl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 gone | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Yaga | det |
| 14 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yaga | compound |
| 15 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the heroes | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go off | participle | the heroes not said here | to the chase | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | the Baba Yaga | there | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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