Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 112

Then in a moment they rolled themselves into a ball, flung themselves at the window, smashed it to pieces, and glided in a body into the room.

Who acts: girls · What happens: roll, fling, smash, glide · To what, where: girls, ball, window, door, pieces, body

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 rolled	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolled	nsubj
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 rolled	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 ball	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flung	punct
12	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 flung	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smashed	punct
18	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smashed	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 smashed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glided	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glided	cc
24	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rolled	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 body	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 body	det
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glided	obl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 room	det
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glided	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	girls = girl	girls = girl	a ball	then; moment		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into ball=Trajectory
2	fling	past	girls = girl not said here	girls = girl	the window			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at window=Destination
3	smash	past	girls = girl not said here	door	pieces			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination
4	glide	participle	girls = girl not said here		a body		into the room	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in body=Source into room=Trajectory

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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