Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 84

Up she drove to the gate, stopped short, and, snuffing the air around her, cried:--

Who acts: Yaga · What happens: drive, stop, snuff, cry · To what, where: gate, air

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 (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	Up	up	ADV	_	3 drove	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stopped	punct
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stopped	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snuffing	punct
13	snuffing	snuff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 cried	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snuffing	obj
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 snuffing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snuffing	punct
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Yaga		the gate		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory
2	stop	past	Yaga not said here			short property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	snuff	gerund		the air		around Yaga	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past	Yaga not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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