Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 24

They returned home, but they hadn't had time to sit down when the thunder[102] crashed, the ceiling split open, and in flew a raven.

Who acts: whirlwind, thunder, ceiling · What happens: return, not have, sit down, crash, split, fly · To what, where: raven

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirlwind, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 returned	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 returned	conj
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sit	mark
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 time	acl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sit	compound:prt
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 crashed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thunder	det
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crashed	nsubj
17	[	[	PUNCT	_	18 102	punct
18	102	102	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 thunder	appos
19	]	]	PUNCT	_	18 102	punct
20	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 split	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ceiling	det
23	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 split	nsubj
24	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	parataxis
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 split	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flew	cc
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 flew	mark
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 split	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 raven	det
31	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	whirlwind			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not have	past · perfect	whirlwind		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	to-infinitive	whirlwind not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	crash	past	the thunder				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	split	past	the ceiling			open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fly	past	the ceiling not said here	a raven			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location raven=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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