Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 84
The Demon rushed to the window, stared with all his eyes, and heard everyone shouting at the top of his voice the words, "The Bad Wife!"
Who acts: Demon · What happens: rush, stare, hear, shout · To what, where: everyone, top
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Demon | det |
| 2 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stared | punct |
| 8 | stared | stare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rushed | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 eyes | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 everyone | acl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shouting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 words | det |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Wife | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Wife | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Wife | det |
| 29 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Wife | amod |
| 30 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | parataxis |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Wife | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the Demon | to the window result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | ||||
| 2 | stare | participle | the Demon not said here | with demon's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the Demon not said here | everyone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | the top of demon's voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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