Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 69

The blind man took the Baba Yaga by her back hair, and she led them into the depths of the forest, brought them to a well,[324] and said--

Who acts: blind man, Yaga · What happens: take, lead, bring, say · To what, where: Baba Yaga, fountain, depths, well · 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 (blind man, 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 man	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Yaga	det
6	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Yaga	compound
7	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 hair	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hair	compound
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 led	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 led	nsubj
15	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 led	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 depths	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 depths	det
19	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 led	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 depths	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 well	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 well	det
28	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 324	punct
30	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 324	punct
31	324	324	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 well	appos
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 324	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brought	conj
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the blind man		the Baba Yaga		by Yaga's back hair	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument yaga=Destination
2	lead	past	Yaga	fountain		the depths of the forest		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into depth=Destination
3	bring	past		fountain		a well		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to well=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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