Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 58

The third time, just as he was going to rush at her, she laid the cross upon him.

Who acts: same, body · What happens: go, rush, lay · To what, where: cross

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same, body), 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	3 time	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 time	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rush	mark
11	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rush	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cross	det
18	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	same				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rush	to-infinitive	same not said here			at body	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory
3	lay	past	body	the cross	time	upon same	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cross=Theme upon he=Destination

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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