Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 118

Hardly had they got into the palace, when the thunder pealed, the ceiling split open, and into the room where they were, came flying a falcon bright.

Who acts: sisters, thunder, ceiling · What happens: have, get, peal, split, be, come · To what, where: palace, room, falcon

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, thunder, ceiling), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pealed	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pealed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thunder	det
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pealed	nsubj
12	pealed	peal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 palace	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 split	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ceiling	det
15	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 split	nsubj
16	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pealed	conj
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 split	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 were	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 were	nsubj
25	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 were	punct
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
28	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 came	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 falcon	det
30	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flying	obj
31	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flying	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				hardly property	tree rules
2	get	past	sisters = sister		the palace		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination
3	peal	participle	the thunder				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	split	past	the ceiling			open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	be	past	sisters = sister				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past			the room		tree rules
7	fly	gerund		a falcon		bright property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location falcon=Theme

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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