Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 8

Scarcely had they entered the palace, when the thunder crashed, the roof burst into a blaze, the ceiling split in twain, and in flew an eagle.

Who acts: Scarcely, Ivan, thunder, roof · What happens: have, enter, crash, burst, split, fly · To what, where: palace, blaze, ceiling, twain, eagle

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 (Scarcely, Ivan, thunder, roof), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crashed	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 crashed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thunder	det
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crashed	nsubj
11	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 burst	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roof	det
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burst	nsubj
15	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 blaze	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blaze	det
18	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burst	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ceiling	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ceiling	det
21	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blaze	appos
22	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ceiling	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 twain	case
24	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 split	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 flew	mark
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 burst	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eagle	det
30	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	enter	past	Ivan	the palace		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
3	crash	past	the thunder			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	burst	past	the roof		a blaze	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	split	participle		the ceiling not said here	twain	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fly	past	the roof not said here	a eagle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eagle=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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