Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 96

Katoma seized him by the tail, and flung him close to the stable, crying--

Who acts: Katoma · What happens: seize, fling, cry · To what, where: Prince, stable

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	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flung	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flung	cc
9	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flung	obj
11	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 flung	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crying	punct
16	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 flung	advcl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Katoma	Prince		by the tail	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fling	past	Katoma not said here	Prince	the stable	close property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to stable=Destination
3	cry speech: express	gerund	Katoma not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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