Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 30

But he held his ground and went on reading, never once looking behind him.

Who acts: fire · What happens: hold, go, not look · To what, where: ground, reading

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 (fire), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 held	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ground	nmod:poss
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 reading	case
9	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 looking	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 looking	advmod
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 held	advcl
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looking	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	fire	fire's ground			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
2	go	past	fire not said here		reading		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on reading=Location
3	not look	gerund	fire not said here			behind fire; once property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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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