Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 103

Then the poor man turned aside from the public road, crawled off through the woods, and dashed off through the tall reeds of the gardens, with the dogs after him.

Who acts: poor man · What happens: turn, crawl off, dash off · To what, where: public road, woods, tall reeds

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, 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 (poor 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crawled	punct
12	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 crawled	compound:prt
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 woods	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woods	det
16	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crawled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dashed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dashed	cc
19	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 dashed	compound:prt
21	through	through	ADP	_	24 reeds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reeds	det
23	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 reeds	amod
24	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dashed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 gardens	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gardens	det
27	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 reeds	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dogs	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 dogs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dogs	det
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dashed	conj
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dogs	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the poor man	the public road	then	aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from road=Trajectory
2	crawl off	past	the poor man not said here	the woods			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
3	dash off	past		the tall reeds of the gardens			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through reed=Trajectory

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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