Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 59
So he gripped and snatched the tail so mightily that the entire skin remained in his hand.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: grip, snatch, remain · To what, where: tail, entire skin, hand
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katomá), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gripped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gripped | nsubj |
| 3 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 snatched | cc |
| 5 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gripped | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tail | det |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snatched | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 mightily | advmod |
| 9 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 5 snatched | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 skin | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 12 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skin | amod |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snatched | parataxis |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 skin | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | past | Katomá | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | snatch | past | Katomá not said here | the tail | the entire skin parataxis; mightily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 3 | remain | participle | the entire skin not said here | Katomá's hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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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