Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 66
So she stretched out her claws, scratched herself a way through, and again ran after them.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: stretch out, scratch, run · To what, where: claws, maiden
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 claws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scratched | punct |
| 8 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 scratched | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scratched | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | through | through | ADV | _ | 8 scratched | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | maiden | maiden's claws | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scratch | past | maiden not said here | maiden | a way obl:unmarked; through property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | past | maiden not said here | after claws = claw; again | 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: «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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