Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 36

The Leshy groaned, and seemed to be going to fall across the log; but directly afterwards he got up and dragged himself into the thickets.

Who acts: Leshy · What happens: groan, seem, go, fall, get up, drag · To what, where: log, LESHY, thickets

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 (Leshy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2963): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Leshy	det
2	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 groaned	nsubj
3	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 seemed	cc
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 groaned	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 going	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seemed	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fall	mark
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 log	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 log	det
14	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fall	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
17	directly	directly	ADV	_	18 afterwards	advmod
18	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 groaned	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 got	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dragged	cc
23	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 dragged	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 thickets	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thickets	det
27	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dragged	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	groan	past	the Leshy				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	the Leshy not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	go	to-infinitive · progressive	the Leshy not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fall	to-infinitive	the Leshy not said here		the log		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across log=Initial_Location
5	get up	past	LESHY			afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	drag	past	LESHY not said here	LESHY	the thickets		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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