Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 161

Exactly at twelve o'clock the blossom began to shake, flew from place to place, and then fell to the ground, and the beautiful maiden appeared, got herself things to eat and drink, and sat down to supper.

Who acts: blossom, beautiful maiden · What happens: begin, shake, fly, fall, appear, get · To what, where: place, blossom

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 (blossom, beautiful maiden), 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	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 o'clock	case
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 o'clock	nummod
4	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exactly	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blossom	det
6	blossom	blossom	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 shake	mark
9	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 place	case
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 place	case
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 fell	advmod
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 appeared	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 appeared	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 maiden	amod
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appeared	nsubj
28	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 appeared	conj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 got	obj
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 got	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 things	acl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 drink	cc
36	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 eat	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sat	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sat	cc
39	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 sat	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 supper	case
42	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sat	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the blossom				exactly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake	to-infinitive	the blossom not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	fly	past	the blossom not said here		place		to place	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination
4	fall	past				then	to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
5	appear	past	the beautiful maiden					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	past	the beautiful maiden not said here	blossom				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary thing=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	the beautiful maiden not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	drink	infinitive	the beautiful maiden not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sit down	past	the blossom not said here				to supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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