Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 65

Once more he turned, once more he wheeled, then shot past the eye like a streak of fire, took an accurate aim, and kissed[335] the fair Helena right on the lips!

Who acts: Vanya · What happens: turn, wheel, shoot, take, kiss · To what, where: accurate aim, 335, lips

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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 turned	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wheeled	punct
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 wheeled	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wheeled	nsubj
9	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shot	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 shot	advmod
12	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	parataxis
13	past	past	ADP	_	15 eye	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eye	det
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 streak	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 streak	det
18	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 fire	case
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 streak	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shot	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 aim	det
24	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 aim	amod
25	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kissed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kissed	cc
28	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
29	[	[	PUNCT	_	30 335	punct
30	335	335	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 kissed	obl
31	]	]	PUNCT	_	30 335	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Helena	det
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Helena	amod
34	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 335	appos
35	right	right	ADV	_	38 lips	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 lips	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lips	det
38	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kissed	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Vanya					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	wheel	past	Vanya					vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	shoot	past				then	past the eye; like a streak of fire	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	past		a accurate aim				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme
5	kiss	past	Vanya not said here	335	the lips			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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