Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 108
Away sped Sozh on the chase, through untrodden places, washing away swamps, cutting out gullies, tearing up oaks by the roots.
What happens: speed, wash away, cut out, tear up · To what, where: Sozh, chase, swamps, gullies, oaks
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 sped | advmod |
| 2 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sozh | Sozh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sped | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 chase | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chase | det |
| 6 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 places | punct |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 places | case |
| 9 | untrodden | untrodden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 places | amod |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 washing | punct |
| 12 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sped | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 washing | advmod |
| 14 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 washing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cutting | punct |
| 16 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 washing | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cutting | compound:prt |
| 18 | gullies | gully | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cutting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tearing | punct |
| 20 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 cutting | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 tearing | compound:prt |
| 22 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tearing | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 roots | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 roots | det |
| 25 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tearing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | Sozh | the chase | through untrodden places; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sozh=Theme on chase=Trajectory through place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wash away | gerund | swamps | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swamp=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cut out | gerund | gullies | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector gully=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tear up | gerund | oaks | by the roots | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location oak=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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