Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 90
With great delight he seized the hare, cut it open--and had such a fright!
Who acts: hare · What happens: seize, cut, have · To what, where: hare, delight, fright
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 delight | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 delight | amod |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hare | det |
| 7 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seized | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | obj |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cut | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 fright | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fright | det |
| 17 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | hare | the hare | with great delight | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | hare not said here | delight | open property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | have | past | hare not said here | such fright | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=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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