Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 93

In an instant the hero seizes it, and begins to blow it and to dance wildly around the _Yakshini_, fixing his eyes upon her and applying to her the words of her own spell.

Who acts: hero, most · What happens: seize, begin, blow, dance, fix, apply · To what, where: instant, Yakshini, eyes, words, most, own spell

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 (hero, most), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seizes	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seizes	nsubj
6	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seizes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begins	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begins	cc
10	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seizes	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 blow	mark
12	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begins	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blow	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dance	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 dance	mark
16	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 blow	conj
17	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	16 dance	advmod
18	around	around	ADP	_	21 Yakshini	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Yakshini	det
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Yakshini	punct
21	Yakshini	Yakshini	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 dance	obl
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 blow	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fixing	punct
24	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 blow	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fixing	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fixing	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 applying	cc
30	applying	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 fixing	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 applying	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 words	det
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 applying	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 spell	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 spell	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 spell	amod
38	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 words	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seizes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	present	the hero	instant		a instant		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	begin	present	the hero not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	blow	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	instant				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	dance	to-infinitive	the hero not said here			the Yakshini	wildly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around yakshini=Location
5	fix	gerund	the hero not said here	_'s eyes			upon most	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	apply	gerund	the hero not said here	the words of most's own spell	most			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	word			most's own spell				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	spell		most					nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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