Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 103
She rushed at the boards and made a snatch at him, and fell back; she rushed at him again, and again she fell back.
Who acts: bang · What happens: rush, make, fall back · To what, where: boards, snatch
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bang), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 boards | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boards | det |
| 5 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rushed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snatch | det |
| 9 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 fell | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rushed | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rushed | nsubj |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rushed | obl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 rushed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 fell | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rushed | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 fell | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | bang | the boards | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at board=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | make | past | bang not said here | a snatch | at lord | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snatch=Product | |||
| 3 | fall back | past | bang not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rush | past | bang | again | at lord | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | fall back | past | bang | again | vn occur-48.3 «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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