Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 142

When it had come up with the sportsman, it made a rush at him; but the dog seized hold of it by its bare calves, and began a tussle with it.

Who acts: way, dog · What happens: come up, make, seize, begin, hold · To what, where: rush, hold, tussle, way

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, dog), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sportsman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sportsman	det
8	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rush	det
13	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rush	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 seized	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 seized	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dog	det
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	nsubj
20	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
21	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hold	nmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 calves	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 calves	nmod:poss
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 calves	amod
27	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seized	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tussle	det
32	tussle	tussle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 began	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 began	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past · perfect	way		with the sportsman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	way	a rush	at moujik	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rush=Product
3	seize	past	the dog	hold of way	by way's bare calves	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	begin	past	way not said here	a tussle	with way	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent tussle=Eventuality with it=Subeventuality
5	hold			way		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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