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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stump | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stump | det |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stump | amod |
| 7 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 sharp | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 side | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hero | det |
| 20 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hero | amod |
| 21 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 22 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hero | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 hurried | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hero | punct |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 spring | det |
| 27 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thumped | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thumped | cc |
| 30 | thumped | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 32 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thumped | obj |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 stump | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stump | det |
| 35 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thumped | obl |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 hard | advmod |
| 37 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 thumped | advmod |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 knocked | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 knocked | nsubj |
| 40 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 thumped | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 stump | det |
| 42 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 knocked | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 knocked | compound:prt |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 roots | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 roots | det |
| 46 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 knocked | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | hero | to the tall stump result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stump=Result | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | hero not said here | one side | sharp property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hurry on | participle | the blind hero not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the blind hero | spring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | thump | past | the blind hero not said here | smell's forehead | against the stump; hard property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent forehead=Instrument against stump=Patient | |||
| 6 | knock out | past | smell | the stump | by the roots | vn 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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