Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 16

The Baba Yaga began gnawing away at it, but however hard she worked, she couldn't gnaw her way through it, so she had to go back again.

Who acts: Baba Yaga, girl · What happens: begin, gnaw away, work, not gnaw, have, go back · To what, where: way, Yaga

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	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	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 began	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 gnawing	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gnawing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 worked	cc
11	however	however	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 worked	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worked	nsubj
14	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gnaw	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gnaw	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 gnaw	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 gnaw	advmod
19	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 worked	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gnaw	obj
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gnaw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Baba Yaga					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	gnaw away	gerund	the Baba Yaga not said here				at Yaga; away property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
3	work	past	girl				hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not gnaw	could	girl	girl's way	Yaga			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	have	past	girl					tree rules
6	go back	to-infinitive	girl not said here			again		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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