Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 69
She caught hold of the wool on his back and shoved him out.
Who acts: sheep · What happens: catch, shove out, hold · To what, where: hold, back, flock, 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), 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 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wool | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wool | det |
| 6 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shoved | cc |
| 11 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shoved | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 shoved | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | sheep | hold of the wool | flock's back | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | shove out | past | sheep not said here | flock | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | the wool | nom hold «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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