Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 138

They, not knowing he can see, embrace in his presence, whereupon he catches up the "cripple" by the legs, and dashes him against his wife.

Who acts: three, husband · What happens: not know, see, embrace, catch up, dash · To what, where: presence, cripple, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three, husband), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knowing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knowing	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 knowing	advmod
4	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knowing	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 embrace	punct
9	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 presence	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 presence	nmod:poss
12	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 embrace	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 catches	punct
14	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	16 catches	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catches	nsubj
16	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 knowing	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 catches	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cripple	det
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cripple	punct
20	cripple	cripple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catches	xcomp
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cripple	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 legs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 legs	det
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 catches	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dashes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dashes	cc
27	dashes	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 catches	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dashes	obj
29	against	against	ADP	_	31 wife	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dashes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	three				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	can	husband				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	embrace	infinitive	husband not said here		husband's presence		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch up	present	husband	the cripple		by the legs; whereupon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	dash	present	husband not said here	husband		against husband's wife	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument against wife=Patient

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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