Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 54
And it caught up that girl, and then flung her down on the ground.
Who acts: whirlwind · What happens: catch up, fling down · To what, where: girl, ground
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 (whirlwind), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 caught | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 girl | mark |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flung | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 flung | advmod |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flung | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 flung | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | whirlwind | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fling down | past | whirlwind not said here | girl | the ground | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on ground=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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