Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 5

Then the Baba Yaga pounced upon the dogs, on the doors, on the birch-tree, and on the servant-maid, and set to work to abuse them all, and to knock them about.

Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: pounce, set, work, abuse, knock · To what, where: doors

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), 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	5 pounced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Yaga	det
3	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Yaga	compound
4	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pounced	nsubj
5	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dogs	det
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pounced	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doors	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 doors	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 doors	det
12	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pounced	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tree	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 birch	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doors	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 maid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 maid	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 maid	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 maid	det
23	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 maid	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 servant	punct
25	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pounced	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pounced	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 work	mark
30	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 abuse	mark
32	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 work	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 abuse	obj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 them	nmod:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knock	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 knock	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 knock	mark
38	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knock	obj
40	about	about	ADV	_	38 knock	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pounce	past	the Baba Yaga		the doors on the birch tree	then	upon the dogs; on the servant maid	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon dog=Trajectory
2	set	infinitive	the Baba Yaga not said here					tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	the Baba Yaga not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	abuse	to-infinitive	the Baba Yaga not said here	doors = door				vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	knock	to-infinitive	the Baba Yaga not said here	doors = door			about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=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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