Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 81

When she goes abroad she rides in a mortar, which she urges on with a pestle, while she sweeps away the traces of her flight with a broom.

Who acts: Yaga, mortar · What happens: go, ride, urge on, sweep away · To what, where: mortar, traces

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 (Yaga, mortar), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 goes	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rides	advcl
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rides	nsubj
6	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mortar	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mortar	det
9	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rides	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 urges	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 urges	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 urges	nsubj
13	urges	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mortar	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 urges	compound:prt
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 pestle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pestle	det
17	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 urges	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sweeps	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 sweeps	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sweeps	nsubj
21	sweeps	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rides	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 sweeps	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 traces	det
24	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sweeps	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 flight	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 flight	nmod:poss
27	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 traces	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 broom	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 broom	det
30	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flight	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Yaga			abroad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	present	Yaga		a mortar		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	urge on	present	a mortar			with a pestle	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sweep away	present	Yaga	the traces of Yaga's flight with a broom		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Trajectory

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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