Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 111
Then he seized it by the tail, and pulled it so hard that he pulled the cow's hide right off!
Who acts: Anna · What happens: seize, pull · To what, where: meat, hide
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tail | det |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | cc |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | nsubj |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cow | det |
| 18 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hide | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 cow | case |
| 20 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obj |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 off | advmod |
| 22 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 pulled | advcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Anna | meat | then | by the tail | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | pull | past | Anna not said here | meat | hard property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull | past | Anna | the cow's hide | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme |
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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