Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 145

Then the dog ran off in pursuit of its master, caught him up just as he reached home, and rushed at him, furiously trying to bite and to rend him.

Who acts: dog · What happens: run off, catch up, reach, rush, try, bite · To what, where: pursuit, dog, master

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ran	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pursuit	case
7	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 master	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pursuit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 caught	compound:prt
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 reached	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	advcl
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 reached	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rushed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rushed	cc
22	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rushed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
26	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	27 trying	advmod
27	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 rushed	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bite	mark
29	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trying	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rend	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 rend	mark
32	rend	rend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bite	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rend	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the dog		pursuit of pursuit's master	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory
2	catch up	past	the dog not said here	dog				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	reach	past	dog				home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rush	past	the dog not said here				at dog	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
5	try	gerund	the dog not said here				furiously property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dog not said here					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	rend	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	dog				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	pursue			pursuit's master				nom pursuit «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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