Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 123
Presently there came flying a bird--such a big one, that the light was blotted out by it.
What happens: come, fly, blot out · To what, where: bird, light
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blotted | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 blotted | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 light | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blotted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blotted | aux:pass |
| 17 | blotted | blot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 blotted | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 blotted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | presently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | a bird and such big one | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blot out | past · passive | the light | by tree | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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