Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 165
Nikita catches her up, and then flings her down on the floor.
Who acts: Nikita · What happens: catch up, fling down · To what, where: queen, floor
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 (Nikita), 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 | Nikita | Nikita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 catches | nsubj |
| 2 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 catches | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 catches | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flings | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flings | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 flings | advmod |
| 8 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 catches | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flings | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 flings | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flings | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 catches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | present | Nikita | queen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling down | present | Nikita not said here | queen | the floor | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on floor=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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