Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 49
And as for you, sister, when the Baba Yaga comes, sit down just here, close by the window; and as you dress her hair, quietly separate the locks and throw them outside through the window.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, you · What happens: come, sit down, dress, separate, throw · To what, where: hair, locks, window
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, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 you | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 you | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 comes | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Yaga | det |
| 10 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yaga | compound |
| 11 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sister | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 comes | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sit | compound:prt |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 here | advmod |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 sit | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 close | punct |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sit | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 close | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 separate | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 separate | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 dress | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 dress | nsubj |
| 27 | dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 separate | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hair | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dress | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dress | punct |
| 31 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 32 separate | advmod |
| 32 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 sit | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 locks | det |
| 34 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 separate | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 throw | cc |
| 36 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 separate | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 throw | obj |
| 38 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 36 throw | advmod |
| 39 | through | through | ADP | _ | 41 window | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 window | det |
| 41 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 throw | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the Baba Yaga | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | infinitive | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dress | present | you | Yaga's hair | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 4 | separate | infinitive | the locks | quietly property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | ||||
| 5 | throw | infinitive | locks = lock | the window | outside property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme through window=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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