Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 55
Then she ran home--almost beside herself, fancying all the time she was being pursued.
Who acts: stranger, time · What happens: run, fancy, pursue · To what, where: stranger
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 (stranger, time), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 herself | punct |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 herself | advmod |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancying | punct |
| 10 | fancying | fancy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fancying | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pursued | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pursued | aux:pass |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pursued | aux:pass |
| 17 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | stranger | then | beside stranger; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside herself=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fancy | gerund | stranger not said here | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | pursue | past · passive | all time not said here | stranger | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=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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