--- title: But the girl put her ear to the ground again, and when she heard tha… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But the girl put her ear to the ground again, and when she heard that the Baba Yaga was near, she flung down the comb, and instantly a forest sprang up, such an awfully thick one! Who acts: girl, Baba Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/15/) [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/) / 15 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 15 But the girl put her ear to the ground again, and when she heard that the Baba Yaga was near, she flung down the comb, and instantly a forest sprang up, such an awfully thick one! **Who acts:** girl, Baba Yaga · **What happens:** put, hear, be, fling down, spring up · **To what, where:** ear, comb, forest 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 (girl, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:29:15 # text = But the girl put her ear to the ground again, and when she heard that the Baba Yaga was near, she flung down the comb, and instantly a forest sprang up, such an awfully thick one! 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 near near ADV RB _ 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 33 sprang spring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 40 det:predet _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 awfully awfully ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | the girl | girl's ear | | | again | to the ground; a forest *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | | 2 | **hear** | past | girl | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the Baba Yaga | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fling down** | past | girl | the comb | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme | | 5 | **spring up** | participle | | a forest *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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