Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 86

No sooner had he managed to seat himself than the magic horse leaped up from the ground and soared higher than the forest--higher than the standing forest, lower than the flitting cloud.

Who acts: Katoma · What happens: manage, leap up, soar · To what, where: seat, magic horse, ground

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 (Katoma), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 managed	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 managed	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 managed	nsubj
5	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 seat	mark
7	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 managed	obj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 seat	nmod:unmarked
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 managed	obl
13	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 horse	acl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 leaped	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 soared	cc
19	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 managed	conj
20	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 soared	xcomp
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 forest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 higher	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 higher	punct
25	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 forest	amod
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 forest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
28	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 forest	compound
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 higher	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lower	punct
31	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 higher	conj
32	than	than	ADP	_	35 cloud	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cloud	det
34	flitting	flitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cloud	compound
35	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lower	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past	Katoma	seat Katoma		than the magic horse; soon property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
2	leap up	participle		the magic horse not said here	the ground		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ground=Trajectory
3	soar	past	Katoma not said here			high property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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