Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 10
The Baba Yaga, bony of limb, quickly jumped into her mortar, sent it flying along with the pestle, sweeping away the while all traces of its flight with a broom, and set off in pursuit of the girl.
Who acts: Baba Yaga, Yaga · What happens: jump, send, fly, sweep away, set off, pursue · To what, where: mortar, Yaga, the, pursuit, girl
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. 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, 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 | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bony | punct |
| 5 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Yaga | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 limb | case |
| 7 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bony | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yaga | punct |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 jumped | advmod |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 mortar | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sent | xcomp |
| 18 | along | along | ADV | _ | 17 flying | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pestle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pestle | det |
| 21 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flying | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweeping | punct |
| 23 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 flying | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 sweeping | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sweeping | obj |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 traces | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 traces | det |
| 28 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sweeping | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 flight | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 flight | nmod:poss |
| 31 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 traces | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 broom | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 broom | det |
| 34 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flight | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 set | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 set | cc |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 set | compound:prt |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 pursuit | case |
| 40 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 girl | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 girl | det |
| 43 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pursuit | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the Baba Yaga | into maid's mortar result; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mortar=Result | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the Baba Yaga not said here | Yaga | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | Yaga not said here | with the pestle; along property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sweep away | gerund | Yaga not said here | the | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme the=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | set off | past | the Baba Yaga not said here | pursuit of the girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pursue | the girl | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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