Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 27
All of a sudden there crept out from beneath the stove two demons--a big one and a tiny one--and they ran up to the dead witch.
Who acts: All, demons · What happens: creep out, run up · To what, where: stove
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, demons), 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 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | nmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 crept | advmod |
| 6 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 crept | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 stove | case |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 stove | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obl |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 demons | nummod |
| 13 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stove | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stove | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stove | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ran | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crept | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 ran | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 witch | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 witch | det |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 witch | amod |
| 30 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ran | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | All | the stove and two demons and a big one and a tiny one; there | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stove=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run up | past | demons = demon | to the dead witch result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to witch=Result |
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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