Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 66
She ran and ran, lighted again on his footsteps, and again came back to the horse.
Who acts: witch · What happens: run, light, come back · To what, where: footsteps
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), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lighted | punct |
| 6 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 lighted | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 footsteps | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 10 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lighted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | witch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | witch not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | light | participle | witch not said here | Soldier's footsteps | again | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | come back | past | witch not said here | again | to the horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location |
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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