Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 129
He got on its back, and was carried off--just as a whirlwind flies!
Who acts: man · What happens: get, carry off · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 flies | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 flies | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 flies | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flies | det |
| 15 | whirlwind | whirlwind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flies | amod |
| 16 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | man | Thanks's back | as a whirlwind flies | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fly=Attribute | |||
| 2 | carry off | past · passive | man not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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