Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 162
The young seigneur rushed forward and seized her by her white hands.
Who acts: young seigneur · What happens: rush, seize · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young seigneur), 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 | 3 seigneur | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seigneur | amod |
| 3 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 rushed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seized | cc |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hands | amod |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seized | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the young seigneur | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | the young seigneur not said here | thing | by thing's white hands | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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