Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 71

Away he galloped to his father's grave, let the horse go free, prostrated himself on the earth, and besought his father's counsel.

Who acts: trace, horse · What happens: gallop, let, go, prostrate, beseech · To what, where: grave, horse, trace, earth, counsel

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 (trace, horse), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	3 galloped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 galloped	nsubj
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 grave	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grave	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 galloped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 galloped	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 go	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prostrated	punct
16	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 galloped	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 prostrated	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prostrated	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 besought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 besought	cc
23	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 galloped	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 counsel	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 father	case
27	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 besought	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gallop	past	trace		trace's father's grave	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to grave=Destination
2	let	infinitive	trace not said here	the horse			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the horse not said here			free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prostrate	past	trace not said here	trace	the earth		tree rules
5	beseech	past	trace not said here	trace's father's counsel			tree rules

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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