Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 53

The earth began to shake, and the Norka came rushing up, and burst right through the fence into the park, so huge was it.

Who acts: earth, Norka · What happens: begin, shake, come, rush up, burst, be · To what, where: fence, earth

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: who acts (earth, Norka), 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 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 shake	mark
5	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Norka	det
9	Norka	Norka	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
11	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 came	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 rushing	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 burst	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 burst	cc
15	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
16	right	right	ADV	_	15 burst	advmod
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 fence	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fence	det
19	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burst	obl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 park	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 park	det
22	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burst	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 huge	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 huge	advmod
25	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 burst	conj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 it	cop
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 huge	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the earth				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake	to-infinitive	the earth not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	the Norka				tree rules
4	rush up	gerund	the Norka not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	burst	past			the fence	into the park; right property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fence=Location
6	is a	past		earth			tree rules

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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