Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 55

The Soldier got into the car and set off: at first he drove slowly, but as soon as he was out of sight he let the horse go full split.

Who acts: Soldier, horse · What happens: get, set off, drive, be, let, go · To what, where: car, sight, horse, full split

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, horse), 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 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 first	case
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 drove	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 soon	advmod
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 let	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 sight	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sight	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sight	cop
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 sight	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 sight	case
25	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 soon	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 drove	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	obj
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 split	amod
32	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Soldier		the car		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination
2	set off	infinitive	the Soldier not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	Soldier			slowly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Soldier		sight		tree rules
5	let	past	Soldier	the horse		soon property	tree rules
6	go	infinitive	the horse not said here	full split			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location split=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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