Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 51
Suddenly a stone is lifted, and from under it appears a Baba Yaga, driving in her mortar, with a dog yelping at her heels.
Who acts: dog · What happens: lift, appear, drive, yelp · To what, where: stone, Baba Yaga, mortar
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 (dog), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | aux:pass |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 appears | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 appears | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appears | obl |
| 11 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Yaga | det |
| 13 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yaga | compound |
| 14 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 appears | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 driving | punct |
| 16 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 appears | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mortar | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driving | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dog | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 dog | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driving | obl |
| 24 | yelping | yelp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 dog | acl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 heels | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heels | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 yelping | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present · passive | a stone | suddenly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | a Baba Yaga | stone | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yaga=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | party's mortar | with a dog | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | yelp | gerund | a dog not said here | at party's heels | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at heel=Stimulus |
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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