Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 184
Then Tremsin seized the thrice-lovely Nastasia and put her behind him on horseback, and carried her off to the nobleman.
Who acts: Tremsin · What happens: seize, put, carry off · To what, where: lovely Nastasia, NASTASIA, horseback, 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Nastasia | det |
| 5 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lovely | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrice | punct |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Nastasia | amod |
| 8 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horseback | case |
| 15 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 carried | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 nobleman | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nobleman | det |
| 23 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Tremsin | the lovely Nastasia | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nastasia=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | Tremsin not said here | NASTASIA | horseback | behind SEA | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horseback=Destination | ||
| 3 | carry off | past | Tremsin not said here | NASTASIA | the nobleman | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=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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