Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 33
Away went the sledge at a rattling pace, as if urged on by some one.
What happens: go, urge on · To what, where: sledge
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: 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 | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sledge | det |
| 4 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 pace | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pace | det |
| 7 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pace | compound |
| 8 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urged | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 urged | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 urged | mark |
| 12 | urged | urge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 urged | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 urged | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the sledge | at a rattling pace; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sledge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | urge on a condition, not said to happen | participle | by some one | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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