Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 98

Likho hears the iron doors creak, and cries to them to stop the fugitive. "

Who acts: Likho, iron doors · What happens: hear, creak, cry, stop · To what, where: Woes, fugitive · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Likho, iron doors), 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	Likho	Likho	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doors	compound
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 creak	nsubj
6	creak	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hears	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cries	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cries	cc
9	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hears	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cries	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stop	mark
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cries	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fugitive	det
15	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stop	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hears	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	present	Likho			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	creak	present	the iron doors			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	present	Likho not said here		Woes = woe	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	stop	to-infinitive	Likho not said here	the fugitive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fugitive=Eventuality

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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