Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 164
Then Tremsin seized her by both legs, and mounted his horse and took the Bird Zhar to the nobleman.
Who acts: Tremsin · What happens: seize, mount, take · To what, where: ZHAR, horse, Bird Zhar, nobleman
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 (Tremsin), 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 seized | advmod |
| 2 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | 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 seized | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 legs | det |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mounted | cc |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mounted | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Zhar | det |
| 16 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zhar | compound |
| 17 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 nobleman | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nobleman | det |
| 20 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Tremsin | ZHAR | then | by both legs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 2 | mount | past | Tremsin not said here | instant's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Tremsin not said here | the Bird Zhar | the nobleman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent zhar=Theme to nobleman=Destination |
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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