Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 111

The snakes would have rushed in at the door, but the door was shut; they would have rushed into the passage, but the passage was closed.

Who acts: door, girls · What happens: rush in, be, rush, close · To what, where: snakes, door, passage

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, girls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rushed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rushed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 rushed	aux
5	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 rushed	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rushed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shut	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 shut	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shut	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shut	cop
15	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rushed	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rushed	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rushed	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 rushed	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 rushed	aux
20	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 shut	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 passage	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 passage	det
23	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rushed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 closed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 closed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 passage	det
27	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 closed	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 closed	aux:pass
29	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rushed	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush in	would · perfect · passive		the snakes	the door		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme at door=Trajectory
2	is	past	the door			shut property	tree rules
3	rush	would · perfect	girls = girl			into the passage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passage=Result
4	close	past · passive		the passage			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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