Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 75
"Ha! so you're still up to your tricks," said the heroes, and began to strangle the Baba Yaga, with the intention of flinging her, the accursed one, into the fiery fount.
Who acts: you, heroes, intention, your · What happens: be, say, begin, strangle, fling, trick · To what, where: Baba Yaga, Yaga, fiery fount · 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, heroes, intention, your), 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:pg22373:3536): 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 | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 8 up | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 up | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 up | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tricks | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 up | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heroes | det |
| 16 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 strangle | mark |
| 21 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Yaga | det |
| 23 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | compound |
| 24 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 strangle | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 intention | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 intention | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 intention | det |
| 28 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strangle | obl |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 flinging | mark |
| 30 | flinging | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 intention | acl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 flinging | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 one | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 34 | accursed | accursed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 one | amod |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 her | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 one | punct |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 fount | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fount | det |
| 39 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fount | amod |
| 40 | fount | fount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flinging | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | still | to your tricks; up property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the heroes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the heroes not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | strangle | to-infinitive | the heroes not said here | the Baba Yaga | with the intention | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent yaga=Patient with intention=Instrument | |||
| 5 | fling | gerund | the intention not said here | Yaga | the fiery fount | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into fount=Destination | |||
| 6 | trick in a quote | your | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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: 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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