Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 14

She began rushing at the priest's son, but she couldn't anyhow break into the circle.

Who acts: princess · What happens: begin, rush, not break · To what, where: circle

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 son	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 priest	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 break	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 break	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 break	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 break	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 break	advmod
14	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	_	15 break	advmod
15	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 circle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 circle	det
18	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 break	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	princess		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rush	gerund	princess not said here	at the priest's son	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at son=Trajectory
3	not break	could	princess	into the circle result; anyhow property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into circle=Result

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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