Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 99
Suddenly the sea became violently agitated, and the pike brought him the egg.
Who acts: sea, pike · What happens: become, agitate, bring · To what, where: egg, sea
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, pike), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 6 agitated | advmod |
| 6 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pike | det |
| 10 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 egg | det |
| 14 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the sea | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agitate | participle | the sea not said here | violently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the pike | the egg | sea | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination egg=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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