Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 84

The Fox goes and returns in safety, but the Hare, on her way back, is not in time quite to clear the meeting cliffs, and her tail is jammed in between them.

Who acts: Fox, Hare · What happens: go, return, not be, clear, jam · To what, where: safety, meeting cliffs, tail

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Hare), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 returns	cc
5	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 safety	case
7	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returns	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 time	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 time	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hare	det
11	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 time	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Hare	appos
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Hare	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 time	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 time	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 time	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 clear	mark
24	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cliffs	det
26	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cliffs	compound
27	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 clear	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 jammed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 jammed	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 jammed	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 jammed	aux:pass
33	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goes	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	36 them	case
35	between	between	ADP	_	34 in	fixed
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 jammed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the Fox					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	present	the Fox not said here		safety			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	present	the Hare			in time		tree rules
4	clear	to-infinitive	the Fox not said here	the meeting cliffs				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cliff=Source
5	jam	present · passive		Hare's tail			in Fox	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in they=Destination

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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