Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 120

And if the Baba Yaga gets across the river, and tries to catch you, then you must lay your ear on the ground again, and when you hear that she is close at hand, throw down the comb.

Who acts: Baba Yaga, you, Yaga · What happens: get, try, catch, lay, hear, be · To what, where: river, you, ear, ground, hand, comb · 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 gets	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 gets	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Yaga	det
4	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Yaga	compound
5	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tries	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tries	cc
12	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tries	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 catch	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lay	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	aux
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tries	conj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ear	nmod:poss
22	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
26	again	again	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 throw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 throw	cc
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 hear	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 hear	nsubj
31	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 throw	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 close	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 close	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 close	cop
35	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hear	ccomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 hand	case
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 close	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct
39	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	parataxis
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 throw	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 comb	det
42	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 throw	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the Baba Yaga		the river			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination
2	try	present	the Baba Yaga not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Baba Yaga not said here	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	lay	must	you	your ear	the ground	then; again		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on ground=Destination
5	hear	present	you					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	Yaga		hand		close property	tree rules
7	throw down	infinitive		the comb				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme

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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