Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 170

Before the old man could manage to get a bite he was out of doors and on his way.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: manage, get, be · To what, where: bite, doors

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 manage	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 manage	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bite	det
10	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doors	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 doors	cop
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 doors	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 doors	case
15	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 way	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doors	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	manage	could	the old man			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	a bite		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bite=Stimulus
3	is	past	man		doors and man's way	tree rules

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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