Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 14
Her servants ran to the Smith's house, laid hold of him, tied his hands together, and dragged him off to the gallows.
Who acts: servants · What happens: run, tie, drag off, hold · To what, where: hands, husband, gallows
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 servants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Smith | det |
| 6 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Smith | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 10 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | amod |
| 11 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tied | obj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 tied | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dragged | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dragged | cc |
| 21 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dragged | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 dragged | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 gallows | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gallows | det |
| 26 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dragged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Smith's servants | to the Smith's house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | Smith's servants not said here | husband's hands | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | drag off | past | Smith's servants not said here | husband | the gallows | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gallows=Destination | |||
| 4 | hold | husband | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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