Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 114

Presently came the Snake's Wife flying after them, and she opened her jaws from the sky to the earth, and tried to swallow up Ivan.

Who acts: Wife · What happens: come, fly, open, try, swallow up · To what, where: jaws, earth, sky, Ivan

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Snake	det
4	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Snake	case
6	Wife	Wife	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
7	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opened	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 jaws	nmod:poss
15	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 opened	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 sky	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 earth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tried	cc
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 swallow	mark
26	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 swallow	compound:prt
28	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 swallow	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Snake's Wife					presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	gerund	the Snake's Wife not said here				after Snake		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	past	wife	wife's jaws	the earth	the sky			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient to earth=Recipient
4	try	past	the Snake's Wife not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	swallow up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Snake's Wife not said here	Ivan					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Patient

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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