Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 15

But the girl put her ear to the ground again, and when she heard that the Baba Yaga was near, she flung down the comb, and instantly a forest sprang up, such an awfully thick one!

Who acts: girl, Baba Yaga · What happens: put, hear, be, fling down, spring up · To what, where: ear, comb, forest

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
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	again	again	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 near	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Yaga	det
18	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Yaga	compound
19	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 near	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 near	cop
21	near	near	ADV	_	15 heard	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flung	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 flung	nsubj
24	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 flung	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 comb	det
27	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flung	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 forest	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 forest	cc
30	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	32 forest	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 forest	det
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
33	sprang	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 forest	acl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 sprang	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 one	punct
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	det:predet
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 one	det
38	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	39 thick	advmod
39	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 one	amod
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	parataxis
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the girl	girl's ear	again	to the ground; a forest obl	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	is	past	the Baba Yaga			near property	tree rules
4	fling down	past	girl	the comb			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme
5	spring up	participle		a forest not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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