Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 1
On she dashed in pursuit, chased and chased.
Who acts: she · What happens: dash, chase · To what, where: pursuit
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 dashed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dashed | nsubj |
| 3 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pursuit | case |
| 5 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dashed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chased | punct |
| 7 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pursuit | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chased | cc |
| 9 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chased | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | she | pursuit | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | chase | participle | pursuit not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chase | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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