Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 148
The hero was exceedingly swift-footed, and there was not a single wild beast which could run away from him.
Who acts: hero, single wild beast · What happens: be, run away
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 (hero, single wild beast), 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 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 footed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 footed | cop |
| 4 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 7 footed | advmod |
| 5 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 footed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 swift | punct |
| 7 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 footed | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 beast | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 beast | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beast | amod |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beast | amod |
| 16 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 run | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 run | aux |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beast | acl:relcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 run | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 footed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hero | exceedingly, footed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a single wild beast | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run away | could | a single wild beast | from beast; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
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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