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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 151

It ran up to the tall stump, and turned sharp off on one-side; but the blind hero hurried on, took a spring, and thumped his forehead against the stump so hard that he knocked the stump out by the roots.

Who acts: hero, blind hero, smell · What happens: run up, turn, hurry on, take, thump, knock out · To what, where: one side, blind hero, forehead, stump

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, blind hero, smell), 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

nsubjcompound:prtcasedetamodoblpunctccconjxcompcompound:prtcasenummodpunctoblpunctccdetamodnsubjaclcompound:prtpunctparataxisdetobjpunctccconjnmod:possobjcasedetobladvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvcldetobjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctrootItPRONranVERBupADPtoADPtheDETtallADJstumpNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJturnedVERBsharpADJoffADPonADPoneNUM-PUNCTsideNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETblindADJheroNOUNhurriedVERBonADP,PUNCTtookVERBaDETspringNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthumpedVERBhisPRONforeheadNOUNagainstADPtheDETstumpNOUNsoADVhardADVthatSCONJhePRONknockedVERBtheDETstumpNOUNoutADPbyADPtheDETrootsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 rannsubj
2ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3upupADP_2 rancompound:prt
4totoADP_7 stumpcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 stumpdet
6talltallADJDegree=Pos7 stumpamod
7stumpstumpNOUNNumber=Sing2 ranobl
8,,PUNCT_10 turnedpunct
9andandCCONJ_10 turnedcc
10turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 ranconj
11sharpsharpADJDegree=Pos10 turnedxcomp
12offoffADP_11 sharpcompound:prt
13ononADP_16 sidecase
14oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 sidenummod
15--PUNCT_14 onepunct
16sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing10 turnedobl
17;;PUNCT_25 tookpunct
18butbutCCONJ_25 tookcc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 herodet
20blindblindADJDegree=Pos21 heroamod
21heroheroNOUNNumber=Sing25 tooknsubj
22hurriedhurryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 heroacl
23ononADP_22 hurriedcompound:prt
24,,PUNCT_21 heropunct
25tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 ranparataxis
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 springdet
27springspringNOUNNumber=Sing25 tookobj
28,,PUNCT_30 thumpedpunct
29andandCCONJ_30 thumpedcc
30thumpedthumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 tookconj
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 foreheadnmod:poss
32foreheadforeheadNOUNNumber=Sing30 thumpedobj
33againstagainstADP_35 stumpcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 stumpdet
35stumpstumpNOUNNumber=Sing30 thumpedobl
36sosoADV_37 hardadvmod
37hardhardADVDegree=Pos30 thumpedadvmod
38thatthatSCONJ_40 knockedmark
39hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 knockednsubj
40knockedknockVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 thumpedadvcl
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 stumpdet
42stumpstumpNOUNNumber=Sing40 knockedobj
43outoutADP_40 knockedcompound:prt
44bybyADP_46 rootscase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 rootsdet
46rootsrootNOUNNumber=Plur40 knockedobl
47..PUNCT_2 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1run uppastheroto the tall stump resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stump=Result
2turnpasthero not said hereone sidesharp propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory
3hurry onparticiplethe blind hero not said herevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4takepastthe blind herospringvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5thumppastthe blind hero not said heresmell's foreheadagainst the stump; hard propertyvn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent forehead=Instrument against stump=Patient
6knock outpastsmellthe stumpby the rootsvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stump=Theme by root=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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