Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 9
This way and that they rush,--cannot see him anywhere.
Who acts: devils · What happens: rush, not see · To what, where: place
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 (devils), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 rush | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rush | nsubj |
| 6 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rush | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 rush | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 way | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | present | devils = devil | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see | can | place | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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