Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 123
This he did, and then greeted Vikhor, and caught hold of his right little finger.
Who acts: This · What happens: do, greet, catch, hold · To what, where: Vikhor, hold, right little finger
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 greeted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 greeted | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 greeted | advmod |
| 7 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 greeted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 finger | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 finger | amod |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | This not said here | Vikhor | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vikhor=Theme | |||
| 3 | catch | past | This not said here | hold of Prince's right little finger | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | Prince's right little finger | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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