Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 48

Now everyone knows that if a soldier catches sight of a pretty girl, nothing will make him pass her by quietly, but he hooks on to her somehow or other.

Who acts: everyone, soldier, nothing · What happens: know, catch, make, pass, hook, sight · To what, where: sight, SOLDIER, girl, pretty girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (everyone, soldier, nothing), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 knows	advmod
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 make	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 catches	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catches	nsubj
8	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 make	advcl
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catches	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 girl	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sight	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 catches	punct
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 make	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knows	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 quietly	case
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	19 pass	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hooks	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hooks	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hooks	nsubj
26	hooks	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 her	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hooks	obl
30	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	26 hooks	advmod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 other	cc
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 somehow	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	everyone		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch a condition, not said to happen	present	a soldier	sight of a pretty girl			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	make	future	nothing	SOLDIER			tree rules
4	pass	infinitive	SOLDIER not said here	girl			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme by quietly=Destination
5	hook	present	SOLDIER			on girl; somehow property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on she=Co-Patient
6	sight			a pretty girl			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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