Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 125

Protius ran her down, Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go.

Who acts: Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, vixen · What happens: run down, hold, milk, let, go · To what, where: vixen

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, vixen), 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	Protius	Protius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct
6	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 held	nsubj
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fast	nmod:poss
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 held	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 milked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 milked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tsar	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Tsar	amod
14	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 milked	nsubj
15	milked	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 milked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 milked	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run down	past	Protius	vixen		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent
2	hold	past	Nedviga		fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	milk	past	the little Tsar	vixen		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source
4	let	infinitive	the little Tsar not said here	vixen		tree rules
5	go	infinitive	vixen not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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