Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 154

All of a sudden the flower began to tremble, then it fell from its stem to the ground, and turned into a lovely maiden.

Who acts: sudden flower, flower · What happens: begin, tremble, fall, turn, stem · To what, where: stem, lovely maiden

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden flower, flower), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 flower	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sudden	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sudden	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tremble	mark
9	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 fell	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 stem	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stem	nmod:poss
16	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 maiden	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 maiden	det
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 maiden	amod
26	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 turned	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	all sudden flower				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tremble	to-infinitive	all sudden flower not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	flower	flower's stem	then	to the ground	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stem=Initial_Location to ground=Destination
4	turn	past	all sudden flower not said here	a lovely maiden			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory
5	stem		flower				nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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