Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 58

She struggled like anything, and broke the cord; then she went and sat down at the threshold.

Who acts: Granny · What happens: struggle, break, go, sit down · To what, where: cord, threshold

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Granny), 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 struggled	nsubj
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 anything	case
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 struggled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 broke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 broke	cc
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cord	det
9	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broke	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 went	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 threshold	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 threshold	det
19	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	Granny				like anything	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	past	Granny not said here	the cord				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=Patient
3	go	past	Granny			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	past	Granny not said here		the threshold			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at threshold=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.

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