Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 142

And his two sisters, who had continued running from him during his pursuit, separated in different directions and fled to the bottom of the sea.

Who acts: trace · What happens: continue, run, separate, flee, pursue · To what, where: two sisters, different directions, bottom

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 continued	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 continued	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 continued	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 continued	aux
8	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 continued	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 running	obl
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 pursuit	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pursuit	nmod:poss
14	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 running	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 separated	punct
16	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 continued	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 directions	case
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 directions	amod
19	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 separated	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fled	cc
21	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 separated	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bottom	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bottom	det
24	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bottom	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past · perfect · passive		trace's two sisters				tree rules
2	run	gerund				during trace's pursuit	from trace	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory
3	separate	participle			different directions			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	flee	past			the bottom of the sea			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location
5	pursue		trace					nom pursuit «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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