Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 91
And Verlioka caught sight of the little girl and immediately killed her with his crutch.
Who acts: Verlioka · What happens: catch, kill, sight · To what, where: sight, girl, little girl
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 (Verlioka), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | Verlioka | Verlioka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 killed | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 killed | advmod |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 crutch | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 crutch | nmod:poss |
| 15 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Verlioka | sight of the little girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | Verlioka not said here | girl | with Verlioka's crutch; immediately property | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with crutch=Instrument | |||
| 3 | sight | the little girl | nom sight «cognition 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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