Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 204
Then the strong charger of Nastasia caught up the steed of Tremsin and tore off one of his hides, and began to worry it with his teeth and tear it to fragments as he ran.
Who acts: strong charger, SEA · What happens: catch up, tore off, begin, worry, tear, run · To what, where: steed, one, charger
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 (strong charger, SEA), 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 | 7 caught | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 charger | det |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 charger | amod |
| 4 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nastasia | case |
| 6 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 charger | nmod |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 caught | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steed | det |
| 10 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tremsin | case |
| 12 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 steed | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tore | cc |
| 14 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 tore | compound:prt |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 tore | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hides | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hides | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 worry | mark |
| 24 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 worry | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 teeth | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 worry | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tear | cc |
| 30 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 worry | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tear | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 fragments | case |
| 33 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tear | obl |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 ran | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tear | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | the strong charger of Nastasia | the steed of Tremsin | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | |||
| 2 | tore off | past | the strong charger of Nastasia not said here | one of SEA's hides | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the strong charger of Nastasia not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | worry | to-infinitive | the strong charger of Nastasia not said here | charger | with SEA's teeth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | tear | infinitive | the strong charger of Nastasia not said here | charger | to fragments result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to fragment=Result | |||
| 6 | run | past | SEA | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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