Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 115
But on the King she would not so much as look, but left him outside, loosed greyhounds, and set them at him.
Who acts: King · What happens: leave, loose, set · To what, where: Eagle, greyhounds
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (King), 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 | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 much | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 much | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 much | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 look | case |
| 11 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greyhounds | punct |
| 18 | loosed | loose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 greyhounds | amod |
| 19 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 left | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 left | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the King | Eagle | loosed greyhounds obl; outside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | loose | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the King not said here | greyhounds = greyhound | at Eagle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at he=Destination |
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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