Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 46
A ghastly Gadfly, coming that way, stumbled straight into the Spider's snare.
Who acts: ghastly Gadfly, Spider · What happens: come, stumble, snare · To what, where: way, ghastly Gadfly, snare
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ghastly Gadfly, Spider), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Gadfly | det |
| 2 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Gadfly | amod |
| 3 | Gadfly | Gadfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Gadfly | acl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stumbled | punct |
| 9 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Gadfly | acl:relcl |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 snare | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 snare | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Spider | det |
| 13 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 snare | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Spider | case |
| 15 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stumbled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gadfly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | a ghastly Gadfly not said here | that way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stumble | participle | a ghastly Gadfly not said here | the Spider's snare | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into snare=Destination | ||||
| 3 | snare | the Spider | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=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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