Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 14

The oxen drank up every drop of the river, and then the Baba Yaga began the pursuit anew.

Who acts: oxen, Baba Yaga · What happens: drink up, begin · To what, where: drop, pursuit

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 (oxen, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oxen	det
2	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 drank	compound:prt
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 drop	det
6	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drop	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Yaga	det
14	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Yaga	compound
15	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drank	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pursuit	det
18	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	obj
19	anew	anew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 began	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink up	past	the oxen	every drop of the river					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient
2	begin	past	the Baba Yaga	the pursuit			then	anew property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pursuit=Eventuality

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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