Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 124

The Baba Yaga seated herself in the mortar, and drove out of the courtyard, shooting herself along with the pestle, sweeping away her traces with the broom.

Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: seat, drive out, shoot, sweep away · To what, where: Yaga, mortar, courtyard, traces

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. 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	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 seated	nsubj
4	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 seated	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mortar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mortar	det
8	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drove	cc
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 courtyard	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 courtyard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 courtyard	det
15	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drove	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shooting	punct
17	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 drove	advcl
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 shooting	obj
19	along	along	ADV	_	17 shooting	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 pestle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pestle	det
22	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shooting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sweeping	punct
24	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 shooting	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 sweeping	advmod
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 traces	nmod:poss
27	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sweeping	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 broom	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 broom	det
30	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sweeping	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	the Baba Yaga	Yaga	the mortar		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Value in mortar=Location
2	drive out	past	the Baba Yaga not said here	the courtyard			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory
3	shoot	gerund	the Baba Yaga not said here	Yaga		with the pestle; along property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent herself=Patient with pestle=Instrument
4	sweep away	gerund	the Baba Yaga not said here	Yaga's traces		with the broom; away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Trajectory

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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