Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 3

She gnawed, and gnawed, and was just on the point of gnawing it through, when Ivashko jumped out of it into another tree which stood beside it.

Who acts: witch, Ivashko, tree · What happens: gnaw, be, jump out, stand · To what, where: point, tree

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, Ivashko, tree), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gnawed	nsubj
2	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gnawed	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gnawed	cc
5	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gnawed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 point	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 point	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 point	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 point	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 point	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 point	det
12	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gnawed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gnawing	case
14	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 point	nmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gnawing	obj
16	through	through	ADV	_	14 gnawing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jumped	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 jumped	advmod
19	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	nsubj
20	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gnawed	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	23 it	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 jumped	obl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tree	acl:relcl
29	beside	beside	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stood	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gnawed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnaw	past	witch				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gnaw	participle	witch not said here				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			the point		tree rules
4	gnaw	gerund		point		through property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	jump out	past	Ivashko	point	another tree		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into tree=Trajectory
6	stand	past	another tree		point		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/3/