Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 3

But Vertogor spied the witch, laid hold of the very highest of all the mountains, pitched it down all of a heap on the road, and flung another mountain right on top of it.

Who acts: Vertogor · What happens: spy, pitch down, fling · To what, where: witch, hold, mountain, top

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 (Vertogor), 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	_	3 spied	cc
2	Vertogor	Vertogor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spied	nsubj
3	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spied	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct
7	laid	laid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hold	amod
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 witch	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 highest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 highest	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 highest	advmod
12	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 hold	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 mountains	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 mountains	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountains	det
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 highest	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pitched	punct
18	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spied	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pitched	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 pitched	compound:prt
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 pitched	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 heap	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 heap	det
24	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 all	nmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 road	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 road	det
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 all	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flung	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flung	cc
30	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spied	conj
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 mountain	det
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flung	obj
33	right	right	ADV	_	35 top	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 top	case
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flung	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 top	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spy	past	Vertogor	the witch		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
2	pitch down	past	Vertogor not said here	hold		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination all=Theme
3	fling	past	Vertogor not said here	another mountain	top of top	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme on top=Destination

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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