Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 62
He mounted the horse, set his arms akimbo, and flew, just like a falcon, straight to the home of the Princess Helena.
Who acts: Vanya · What happens: mount, set, fly · To what, where: horse, arms akimbo
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanya), 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 | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mounted | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 akimbo | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 akimbo | compound |
| 9 | akimbo | akimbo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 falcon | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 falcon | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 falcon | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 falcon | det |
| 17 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 home | punct |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 home | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 home | det |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 falcon | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Helena | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Helena | det |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Helena | compound |
| 26 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 home | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Vanya | the horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Vanya not said here | Vanya's arms akimbo | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient akimbo=Result | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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