Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 71
Thrice they crossed themselves, then out they flew--and straight into the Spider's snares.
Who acts: Thrice, gnats, Spider · What happens: cross, fly, snare · To what, where: gnats
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 (Thrice, gnats, 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 | Thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 crossed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 flew | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 snares | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 snares | cc |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 snares | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 snares | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Spider | det |
| 15 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 snares | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Spider | case |
| 17 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Thrice | gnats = gnat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | gnats = gnat | then | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 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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