Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 129

Now a certain witch[208] had heard what Ivashko's parents had cried aloud to him, and she longed to get hold of the boy.

Who acts: superstition · What happens: hear, cry, long, get, hold · To what, where: certain witch, parents, Ivashko, hold, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (superstition), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 heard	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj:pass
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 208	punct
6	208	208	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 witch	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 208	punct
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 cried	obj
11	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 parents	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Ivashko	case
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cried	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	aux
15	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 heard	ccomp
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	15 cried	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 longed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 longed	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 longed	nsubj
22	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 longed	xcomp
25	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 boy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		a certain witch		now		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past · perfect · passive		Ivashko's parents	Ivashko		aloud property	tree rules
3	long	past	superstition					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	superstition not said here	hold of the boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
5	hold			the boy				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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