Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 140
Ivashko came, and she took the fish, and seized the boy and carried him home with her.
Who acts: Ivashko, Witch · What happens: come, take, seize, carry · To what, where: fish, boy
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 (Ivashko, Witch), 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 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seized | cc |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ivashko | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Witch | the fish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | the boy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | past | boy | with Witch; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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