Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 83

The trees cracked, the dry leaves rustled; out of the forest came the Baba Yaga, riding in a mortar, urging it on with a pestle, sweeping away her traces with a broom.

Who acts: trees · What happens: crack, rustle, come, ride, urge on, sweep away · To what, where: dry leaves, Baba Yaga, forest, mortar, 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 (trees), 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 cracked	nsubj
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cracked	obl
8	rustled	rustle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leaves	acl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 forest	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cracked	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 came	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 riding	punct
19	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 mortar	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mortar	det
22	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 riding	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 urging	punct
24	urging	urge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 riding	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 urging	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	24 urging	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 pestle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pestle	det
29	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 urging	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sweeping	punct
31	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 riding	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 sweeping	advmod
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 traces	nmod:poss
34	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sweeping	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 broom	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 broom	det
37	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sweeping	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cracked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the trees	the dry leaves			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rustle	participle		the dry leaves not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the trees not said here	the Baba Yaga	the forest		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yaga=Theme
4	ride	gerund	the trees not said here		a mortar		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	urge on	gerund	the trees not said here	forest		with a pestle	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
6	sweep away	gerund	the trees not said here	Yaga's traces		with a 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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