Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 31
Then he ran back as quickly as he could, paid the silver rouble to the rich man, and got the holy image.
Who acts: man · What happens: run back, pay, get · To what, where: silver rouble, holy image
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 (man), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 paid | punct |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rouble | det |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rouble | compound |
| 14 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 image | det |
| 23 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 image | amod |
| 24 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | man | then | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay | past | man not said here | the silver rouble | to the rich man | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Asset | |||
| 3 | get | past | man not said here | the holy image | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus |
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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