Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 26

He [seemed to be going] to take the gift, but he seized her by the hand, pulled her into the cart, and called to the blind man, who ran off with it at such a pace that no one could catch him, even on horseback.

Who acts: Christ, blind man, one · What happens: seem, go, take, seize, pull, call · To what, where: gift, cripple, cart, blind man, pace, horseback · 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 (Christ, blind man, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
2	[	[	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 going	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seemed	xcomp
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gift	det
11	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seized	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 seized	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seized	nsubj
15	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seized	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hand	det
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seized	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pulled	punct
21	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seized	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pulled	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 cart	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cart	det
25	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pulled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 called	cc
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pulled	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 man	acl:relcl
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 ran	compound:prt
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ran	obl
39	at	at	ADP	_	42 pace	case
40	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 pace	det:predet
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pace	det
42	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 catch	obj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 one	det
45	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 catch	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 catch	aux
47	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 pace	acl:relcl
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 catch	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 horseback	punct
50	even	even	ADV	_	52 horseback	advmod
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 horseback	case
52	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 catch	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Christ					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	go	to-infinitive · progressive	Christ not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	Christ not said here	the gift				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
4	seize	past	Christ	cripple			by the hand	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	pull	past	Christ not said here	cripple		the cart		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
6	call	participle	Christ not said here		the blind man			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
7	run off	past	the blind man				with cart; at such pace	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory
8	catch	could	no one	such pace		horseback		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary he=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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