Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 118

The Baba Yaga will pursue you, but you must lay your ear on the ground, and when you hear that she is close at hand, first of all throw down the towel.

Who acts: Baba Yaga, you, Yaga · What happens: pursue, lay, hear, be · To what, where: you, ear, ground, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baba Yaga, you, 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 Yaga	det
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Yaga	compound
3	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pursue	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pursue	aux
5	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pursue	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	aux
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pursue	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hear	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 hear	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
21	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pursue	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 close	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 close	cop
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hear	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 hand	case
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 close	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 throw	punct
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 throw	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 throw	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 throw	det
32	throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursue	obl
33	down	down	ADP	_	35 towel	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 towel	det
35	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 throw	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pursue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pursue	future	the Baba Yaga	you		of all throw down the towel	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme of throw=Trajectory
2	lay	must	you	your ear	the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on ground=Destination
3	hear	present	you				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	Yaga		hand	close property	tree rules

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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