Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 22

She seizes, not the ducat, but his outstretched hand, and in a moment whisks him off underground to her husband, an Aged One, whose appearance is that of the mythical being whom the Servians call the Vy.

Who acts: mother, appearance, Servians · What happens: seize, whisk off, be, call · To what, where: ducat, Ivan, Vy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (mother, appearance, Servians), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seizes	nsubj
2	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ducat	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ducat	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ducat	det
6	ducat	ducat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seizes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hand	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hand	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	outstretched	outstretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seizes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whisks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whisks	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 moment	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whisks	obl
17	whisks	whisk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seizes	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whisks	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 whisks	compound:prt
20	underground	underground	ADV	_	17 whisks	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 husband	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whisks	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 One	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 One	det
26	Aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 One	amod
27	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 husband	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 whom	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 appearance	nmod:poss
30	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whom	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 whom	cop
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 whom	mark
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 whom	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 whom	det
35	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 whom	amod
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 whom	cop
37	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 One	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Servians	det
39	Servians	Servian	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 call	nsubj
40	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 whom	acl:relcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Vy	det
42	Vy	Vy	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 call	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seizes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seize	present	mother	the ducat			Ivan's outstretched hand obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	whisk off	present	mother not said here	Ivan		moment	to mother's husband; underground property	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to husband=Co-Patient
3	is	present	appearance				of mother's husband	tree rules
4	call	present	the Servians		the Vy			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vy=Recipient

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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