Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 165

Then the witch looked up and saw Ivashko, and immediately rushed at the oak on which Ivashko was seated, and began to gnaw away at it.

Who acts: witch · What happens: look up, see, rush, seat, begin, gnaw away · To what, where: Ivashko, oak

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 looked	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
8	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rushed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rushed	cc
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 rushed	advmod
12	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 oak	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oak	det
15	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushed	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 seated	obl
18	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 seated	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seated	aux:pass
20	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 oak	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 gnaw	mark
25	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 gnaw	advmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gnaw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	past	the witch			then		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	the witch not said here	Ivashko				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ivashko=Stimulus
3	rush	participle	the witch not said here		the oak		immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at oak=Trajectory
4	seat	past · passive		Ivashko	the oak			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
5	begin	past	the witch not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	gnaw away	to-infinitive	the witch not said here				at oak; away property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=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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