Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 44
For gnats and flies began to swarm, biting folks and letting their warm blood flow.
Who acts: gnats · What happens: begin, swarm, bite, let, flow · To what, where: folks, warm blood flow
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 gnats | case |
| 2 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flies | cc |
| 4 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gnats | conj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 swarm | mark |
| 7 | swarm | swarm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 biting | punct |
| 9 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 swarm | advcl |
| 10 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 biting | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 letting | cc |
| 12 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 biting | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 flow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flow | amod |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flow | compound |
| 16 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 letting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | gnats and flies | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | swarm | to-infinitive | gnats and flies not said here | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | gnats and flies not said here | folks | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let | gerund | gnats and flies not said here | gnats's warm blood flow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flow | gnats = gnat | nom flow «event intransitive»: 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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