Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 98

Then the son changed himself into a greyhound, and ran down the fox and killed it.

Who acts: son · What happens: change, run down, kill · To what, where: son, fox

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 changed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	nsubj
4	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 changed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 greyhound	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 greyhound	det
8	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 killed	cc
16	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 killed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the son	son	then	into a greyhound result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into greyhound=Result
2	run down	past		the fox			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Agent
3	kill	past		fox			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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