Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 63
With a wave of his hand, with a bound aloft, he only failed by the breadth of two rows of beams.
Who acts: Vanya · What happens: fail, wave · To what, where: hand
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 wave | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wave | det |
| 3 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wave | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 aloft | punct |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 aloft | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 aloft | det |
| 10 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 aloft | amod |
| 11 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wave | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wave | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 failed | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 failed | advmod |
| 15 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 breadth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 breadth | det |
| 18 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rows | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rows | nummod |
| 21 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 breadth | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beams | case |
| 23 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rows | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | Vanya | with a wave of Vanya's hand; by the breadth of two rows of beams | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wave | Vanya's hand | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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