Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 68
She leaped upon the boards and made a grab at him and fell back.
Who acts: shaking · What happens: leap, make, fall back · To what, where: boards, grab
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 (shaking), 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 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 boards | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boards | det |
| 5 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leaped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 grab | det |
| 9 | grab | grab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | shaking | the boards | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon board=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | make | past | shaking not said here | a grab | at lord | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grab=Product | |||
| 3 | fall back | past | shaking not said here | vn occur-48.3 «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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