Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 56

But he soon saw that he couldn't catch it on foot, so he hastened to the stable, laid his hands on the best horse there, and set off in pursuit.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: see, not catch, hasten, lay, set off · To what, where: beast, foot, stable, hands, pursuit

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 (Prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 catch	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 catch	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 catch	advmod
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 catch	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 foot	case
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hastened	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 hastened	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hastened	nsubj
16	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 stable	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stable	det
19	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hastened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hastened	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hands	nmod:poss
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laid	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 horse	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 horse	amod
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 laid	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 set	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 pursuit	case
34	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Prince			soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not catch	could	Prince	beast	foot		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hasten	past	Prince		the stable		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stable=Destination
4	lay	past	Prince not said here	Prince's hands	there	on the best horse	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on horse=Destination
5	set off	past	Prince not said here		pursuit		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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