Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 42
"Every time you go away to the chase," says she, "there immediately appears in the cottage a very old woman with a most evil face, and long grey hair.
Who acts: you, Yaga, old woman · What happens: go away, say, appear · To what, where: time, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Yaga, old woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3519): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 appears | punct |
| 2 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appears | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chase | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chase | det |
| 9 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 appears | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 appears | expl |
| 17 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 appears | advmod |
| 18 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cottage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cottage | det |
| 21 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appears | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 old | advmod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appears | nsubj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 face | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 face | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 evil | advmod |
| 29 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 face | amod |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woman | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hair | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hair | cc |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hair | amod |
| 34 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hair | amod |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 face | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away in a quote | present | you | every time not said here | to the chase; away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Yaga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | appear in a quote | present | a old woman with a evil face and long grey hair | the cottage; there | time | immediately property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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