Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 45

Then the Spider[67] appeared, the hero bold, who, with waving arms, weaved webs around the highways and byways in which the gnats and flies were most to be found.

Who acts: Spider · What happens: appear, wave, be, find · To what, where: hero bold

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 (Spider), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 appeared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spider	det
3	Spider	Spider	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 67	punct
5	67	67	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Spider	appos
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 67	punct
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bold	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bold	det
10	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bold	compound
11	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arms	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 arms	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arms	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 arms	case
16	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 arms	amod
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bold	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 webs	punct
19	weaved	weaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 webs	amod
20	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 arms	conj
21	around	around	ADP	_	23 highways	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 highways	det
23	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 webs	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 byways	cc
25	byways	byway	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 highways	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	29 gnats	det
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gnats	det
29	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 highways	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flies	cc
31	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gnats	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 most	cop
33	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 gnats	appos
34	to	to	PART	_	36 found	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 most	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the Spider	the hero bold	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bold=Theme
2	wave	gerund					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				most property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive · passive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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