Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 147

The only way by which he could get himself food was this: whenever he perceived by the sense of smell that any animal was running past him, whether a hare, or a fox, or a bear, he immediately started in chase of it, caught it--and dinner was ready for him.

Who acts: way, only way, smell, bear, dinner · What happens: get, be, perceive, run, start, catch · To what, where: way, this, hare, chase, food, smell

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, only way, smell, bear), 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	3 way	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perceived	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 get	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 way	acl:relcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 get	obj
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 this	cop
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 perceived	punct
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 perceived	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 perceived	nsubj
16	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 sense	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sense	det
19	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perceived	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 smell	case
21	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sense	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 running	nsubj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 animal	det
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 running	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 running	aux
26	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 smell	acl:relcl
27	past	past	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 running	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hare	punct
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	32 hare	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hare	det
32	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perceived	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fox	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 fox	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fox	det
36	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hare	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 started	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 started	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bear	det
40	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 started	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bear	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 started	nsubj
43	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	44 started	advmod
44	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 perceived	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 chase	case
46	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 started	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 chase	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 caught	punct
50	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 started	parataxis
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 caught	obj
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 ready	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 ready	cc
54	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 ready	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 ready	cop
56	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 caught	conj
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 ready	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	could	way	way		by the only way	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary food=Theme
2	is a	past	the only way not said here	this			tree rules
3	perceive	past	the only way	a hare or a fox		by the sense of smell; whenever property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	run	past · progressive	smell			past animal	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past he=Trajectory
5	start	past	a bear		chase of chase	immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	catch	past		food			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	is	past	dinner			for animal; ready property	tree rules
8	sense			smell			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	chase			chase			nom chase «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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