Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 114
The witch howled, squealed, yelped like a dog, and fled away.
Who acts: witch · What happens: howl, squeal, yelp, flee away
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 howled | nsubj |
| 3 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 squealed | punct |
| 5 | squealed | squeal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 howled | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yelped | punct |
| 7 | yelped | yelp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 squealed | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yelped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fled | cc |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 howled | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 fled | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | the witch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | squeal | participle | the witch not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | yelp | participle | the witch not said here | like a dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | flee away | past | the witch not said here | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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