Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 134

The trees began to crack, the leaves began to rustle, up drove the Baba Yaga.

Who acts: trees, leaves · What happens: begin, crack, rustle, drive · To what, where: Baba Yaga

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 (trees, leaves), 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	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 crack	mark
5	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leaves	det
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rustle	mark
11	rustle	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
13	up	up	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Yaga	det
16	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Yaga	compound
17	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the trees		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	crack	to-infinitive	the trees not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the leaves		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	rustle	to-infinitive	the leaves not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	drive	past	the leaves not said here	the Baba Yaga	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yaga=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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