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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/) / 101 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 101 Vasilissa lighted a splinter\[189\] at one of the skulls which were on the fence, and began fetching meat from the oven and setting it before the Baba Yaga; and meat enough had been provided for a dozen people. **Who acts:** Vasilissa, skulls · **What happens:** light, be, begin, fetch, set, provide · **To what, where:** splinter, fence, meat, oven This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa, skulls), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:30:101 # text = Vasilissa lighted a splinter[189] at one of the skulls which were on the fence, and began fetching meat from the oven and setting it before the Baba Yaga; and meat enough had been provided for a dozen people. 1 Vasilissa Vasilissa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lighted light VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 189 189 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 skulls skull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 fetching fetch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 setting set VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 provided provide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **light** | past | Vasilissa | a splinter | | | | at one of the skulls | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Product | | 2 | **is** | past | the skulls | | | the fence | | | tree rules | | 3 | **begin** | past | Vasilissa *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **fetch** | gerund | Vasilissa *not said here* | meat | | the oven | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent meat=Theme from oven=Source | | 5 | **set** | gerund | Vasilissa *not said here* | meat | | | before the Baba Yaga | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before yaga=Destination | | 6 | **provide** | past · perfect · passive | | meat | | | | for dozen people | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for people=Beneficiary | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/102/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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