Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 69
Then Protius ran her down and Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go.
Who acts: Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, wolf · What happens: run down, hold, milk, let, go · To what, where: wolf
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, wolf), 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 | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Protius | Protius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 held | cc |
| 7 | Nedviga | Nedviga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 held | nsubj |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 held | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 milked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 milked | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsar | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Tsar | amod |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 milked | nsubj |
| 16 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 milked | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 milked | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | Protius | wolf | then | 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 | wolf | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | the little Tsar not said here | wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | wolf 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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