Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 105
She dashed herself about, and darted madly from one corner of the church to the other, seeking him everywhere.
Who acts: bang · What happens: dash, dart, seek · To what, where: bang, one corner, fury
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 dashed | nsubj |
| 2 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 dashed | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 dashed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 darted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 darted | cc |
| 7 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dashed | conj |
| 8 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 7 darted | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 corner | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 corner | nummod |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 darted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 corner | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 church | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seeking | punct |
| 19 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 darted | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seeking | obj |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 seeking | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | bang | bang | about property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | dart | past | bang not said here | one corner of the church to the other | madly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from corner=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | seek | gerund | bang not said here | fury | everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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