Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 75

His brothers were frightened at the sight of that head and thinking the Snake itself was coming, they let Ivan fall back into the pit."

Who acts: thinking, brothers, Ivan · What happens: frighten, think, come, let, fall back, sight · To what, where: brothers, sight, Snake, pit, head

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 (thinking, brothers, Ivan), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sight	det
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sight	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 coming	cc
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 coming	csubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Snake	det
14	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thinking	obj
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 Snake	nmod:unmarked
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 coming	aux
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 frightened	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	nsubj
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
21	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fall	nsubj
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 fall	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 pit	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pit	det
26	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fall	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		hero's brothers	the sight of that head		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	gerund		the Snake Snake			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot snake=Theme
3	come	past · progressive	thinking				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	past	brothers = brother				tree rules
5	fall back	infinitive	Ivan			into the pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result
6	sight			that head			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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