Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 140

Through gullies and ravines he rushed, and the further he went the fiercer did he become.

Who acts: trace · What happens: rush, go, become · To what, where: gullies

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 (trace), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	2 gullies	case
2	gullies	gully	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rushed	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ravines	cc
4	ravines	ravine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gullies	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rushed	nsubj
6	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 further	det
10	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 went	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rushed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fiercer	det
14	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 went	xcomp
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fiercer	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	trace	gullies and ravines		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gully=Trajectory
2	go	past	trace		far, fierce property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past · do-support	trace			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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