Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 22

Beasts of prey came running at us from all parts of the world, all but tore us utterly to pieces."

Who acts: Beasts · What happens: come, run, tore · To what, where: parts, us

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beasts), 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	Beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 prey	case
3	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beasts	nmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 running	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 parts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 parts	det
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 running	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tore	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 but	det
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 tore	cc
17	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tore	obj
19	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	17 tore	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tore	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Beasts of prey				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	Beasts of prey not said here		all parts of the world	at us	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at we=Trajectory
3	tore	past	Beasts of prey not said here	us		to pieces; utterly property	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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