Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 11

Then the girl put her ear to the ground, and when she heard that the Baba Yaga was chasing her, and was now close at hand, she flung down the towel.

Who acts: girl, Baba Yaga · What happens: put, hear, chase, be, fling down · To what, where: ear, girl, hand, towel

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 (girl, Baba 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 heard	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 chasing	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Yaga	det
17	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Yaga	compound
18	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 chasing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chasing	aux
20	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 heard	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 chasing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 close	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 close	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 close	cop
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 close	advmod
26	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 put	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 hand	case
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	nsubj
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 flung	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 towel	det
34	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the girl	girl's ear		then	to the ground	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal
2	hear	past	girl					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	chase	past · progressive	the Baba Yaga	girl				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is	past	the girl not said here		hand	now	close property	tree rules
5	fling down	past	girl	the towel				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=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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