Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 76
More than ever did the Baba Yaga implore for mercy, swearing a great oath that she would not deceive them this time.
Who acts: More, Baba Yaga, Yaga · What happens: do, implore, swear, not deceive · To what, where: great oath, tricks
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 (More, Baba Yaga, 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | 8 implore | nsubj |
| 8 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 mercy | case |
| 10 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 implore | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swearing | punct |
| 12 | swearing | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 implore | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 oath | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 oath | amod |
| 15 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swearing | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 deceive | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deceive | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 deceive | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 deceive | advmod |
| 20 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 oath | acl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deceive | obj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deceive | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | More | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | implore | present | the Baba Yaga | for mercy | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swear | gerund | the Baba Yaga not said here | a great oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not deceive | would | Yaga | tricks = trick | time | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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