Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 88
Accordingly they went back to the fiery fount, and flung the Baba Yaga into it; didn't it soon make an end of her!
Who acts: fathers, fount · What happens: go back, fling, not make · To what, where: Baba Yaga, fount, end
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 (fathers, fount), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fount | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fount | det |
| 7 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fount | amod |
| 8 | fount | fount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Yaga | det |
| 13 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yaga | compound |
| 14 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flung | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 make | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 make | advmod |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 end | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | fathers = father | to the fiery fount result; accordingly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fount=Result | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | fathers = father not said here | the Baba Yaga | fount | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yaga=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 3 | not make | past · do-support | fount | a end of Yaga | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material end=Product |
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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