Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 67

She let the flock go out one at a time, catching hold of each by the wool on its back, and shoving it out.

Who acts: sheep, flock · What happens: let, go out, catch, shove out · To what, where: one, hold, wool

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 (sheep, flock), 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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flock	det
4	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 go	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 catching	punct
12	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 go	advcl
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catching	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 hold	nmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 wool	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wool	det
18	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catching	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wool	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shoving	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shoving	cc
24	shoving	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 let	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shoving	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	24 shoving	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	sheep			tree rules
2	go out	infinitive	the flock	one at a time	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	gerund	the flock not said here	hold of each	by the wool on wool's back	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	shove out	gerund	sheep not said here	wool		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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