Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 109

The Vulture[270] told Dnieper of this, and he put on extra speed, tearing his way through high hills rather than turn on one side.

Who acts: Vulture · What happens: tell, put, tear, turn · To what, where: Dnieper, extra speed, way, high hills, one side · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Vulture), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vulture	det
2	Vulture	Vulture	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
3	[	[	PUNCT	_	4 270	punct
4	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Vulture	appos
5	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 270	punct
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Dnieper	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 speed	case
15	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 speed	amod
16	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tearing	punct
18	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 put	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tearing	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 hills	case
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hills	amod
23	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tearing	obl
24	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	26 turn	cc
25	than	than	ADP	_	24 rather	fixed
26	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tearing	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 side	nummod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turn	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Vulture		Dnieper of this		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dnieper=Recipient
2	put	past	Vulture			extra speed	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on speed=Destination
3	tear	gerund	Vulture not said here	Dnieper's way		high hills	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme
4	turn	infinitive	Vulture not said here			one side	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory

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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