Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 13

Up came the Baba Yaga to the river, and gnashed her teeth with spite; then she went home for her oxen, and drove them to the river.

Who acts: Baba Yaga, girl · What happens: come, gnash, go, drive · To what, where: river, teeth

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, girl), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	2 came	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gnashed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gnashed	cc
11	gnashed	gnash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gnashed	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 spite	case
15	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gnashed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 went	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 oxen	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 oxen	nmod:poss
23	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drove	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drove	cc
26	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drove	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drove	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Baba Yaga		the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	gnash	past	the Baba Yaga not said here	girl's teeth			with spite	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	go	past	girl			then	for girl's oxen; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ox=Beneficiary
4	drive	past	the Baba Yaga not said here	teeth = tooth	the river			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to river=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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