Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 147

But on she came faster than ever; and now she was close at hand!

Who acts: witch · What happens: come, be · To what, where: hand

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 came	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 faster	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 close	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 close	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 close	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 close	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 close	cop
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	witch					fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	witch			hand	now	close property	tree rules

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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