Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 33

But the soldier was no fool; and as they were flying out he laid hold of one old devil—laid hold of him tight by his paw.

Who acts: soldier, devils, paw · What happens: be, fly out, lay, hold · To what, where: fool, matter

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, devils, paw), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 fool	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fool	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laid	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 flying	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flying	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flying	aux
12	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 laid	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 flying	compound:prt
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	conj
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 laid	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 devil	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 devil	nummod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 devil	amod
20	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	obl
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 hold	punct
22	laid	laid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hold	amod
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fool	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hold	nmod
26	tight	tight	ADV	_	23 hold	advmod
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 paw	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 paw	nmod:poss
29	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the soldier	no fool and laid hold of matter by matter's paw	laid hold of matter by matter's paw conj	tree rules
2	fly out	past · progressive	devils = devil			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	past	soldier			tree rules
4	hold	infinitive	soldier not said here		of one old devil	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold		matter's paw	matter		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent

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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 33