Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 65

Lighting on the Soldier's footsteps she followed them back to the horse, ran right round it, saw the soldier wasn't there, and set off again in pursuit of him.

Who acts: witch, soldier · What happens: light, follow, run, see, not be, set off · To what, where: footsteps, pursuit, Soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (witch, soldier), 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	Lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ran	advcl
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 footsteps	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Soldier	det
4	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 footsteps	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Soldier	case
6	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lighting	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	nsubj
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 footsteps	acl:relcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	1 Lighting	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lighting	punct
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	right	right	ADV	_	18 it	advmod
17	round	round	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 soldier	det
22	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 there	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 there	cop
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 there	advmod
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 saw	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ran	advcl
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 set	compound:prt
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 set	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 pursuit	case
32	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pursuit	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	gerund			the Soldier's footsteps			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	follow	past	witch	footsteps = footstep				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	run	past					round horse	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory
4	see	past						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is	past	the soldier				there property	tree rules
6	set off	infinitive			pursuit of Soldier	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pursue			Soldier				nom pursuit «act 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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