Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 5
At last the witch got across the mountain, and once more set off in pursuit of her brother.
Who acts: last witch · What happens: get, set off, pursue · To what, where: mountain, pursuit, brother
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 (last 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 set | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 set | advmod |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pursuit | case |
| 16 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pursuit | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the last witch | the mountain | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across mountain=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set off | participle | the last witch not said here | pursuit of witch's brother | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | pursue | witch's brother | nom pursuit «act 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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