--- title: The Baba Yaga, bony of limb, quickly jumped into her mortar, sent it… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Baba Yaga, bony of limb, quickly jumped into her mortar, sent it flying along with the pestle, sweeping away the while all traces of its flight with a broom, and set off in pursuit of the girl. Who acts: Baba Yaga, Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) / 10 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 10 The Baba Yaga, bony of limb, quickly jumped into her mortar, sent it flying along with the pestle, sweeping away the while all traces of its flight with a broom, and set off in pursuit of the girl. **Who acts:** Baba Yaga, Yaga · **What happens:** jump, send, fly, sweep away, set off, pursue · **To what, where:** mortar, Yaga, the, pursuit, girl 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 (Baba Yaga, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:29:10 # text = The Baba Yaga, bony of limb, quickly jumped into her mortar, sent it flying along with the pestle, sweeping away the while all traces of its flight with a broom, and set off in pursuit of the girl. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 limb limb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 18 along along ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pestle pestle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sweeping sweep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 obj _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 traces trace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 advcl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 broom broom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 38 off off ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | past | the Baba Yaga | | | | | into maid's mortar *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mortar=Result | | 2 | **send** | past | the Baba Yaga *not said here* | Yaga | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | Yaga *not said here* | | | | | with the pestle; along *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sweep away** | gerund | Yaga *not said here* | the | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme the=Trajectory | | 5 | **set off** | past | the Baba Yaga *not said here* | | | pursuit of the girl | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pursue** | | | the girl | | | | | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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