Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 71

He returns to her house, finds her at the point of death, and throws the rose-bush into the cellar where his love is crying, "Behold her death!" and immediately the whole building shakes to its foundations--"and becomes an island, on which are people who had been sitting in Hell, and who offer up thanks to Prince Ivan."

Who acts: man, love, whole building, people, straightway · What happens: return, find, throw, cry, shake, become · To what, where: straightway, point, rose bush, cellar, island, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, love, whole building, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returns	nsubj
2	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 house	nmod:poss
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returns	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 finds	punct
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 returns	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finds	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 point	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 point	det
11	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 point	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 throws	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 throws	cc
16	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 returns	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bush	det
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bush	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
20	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throws	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 cellar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cellar	det
23	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throws	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 crying	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 love	nmod:poss
26	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crying	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crying	aux
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 cellar	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 death	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 death	punct
31	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	33 death	discourse
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 death	nmod:poss
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throws	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 death	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 death	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 shakes	cc
37	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	41 shakes	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 building	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 building	amod
40	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shakes	nsubj
41	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 returns	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 foundations	case
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 foundations	nmod:poss
44	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 shakes	obl
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 shakes	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 shakes	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 becomes	cc
48	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 returns	conj
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 island	det
50	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 becomes	xcomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 people	punct
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 which	case
53	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	55 people	det
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 people	cop
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 island	nmod
56	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 sitting	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 sitting	aux
58	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 sitting	aux
59	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 people	acl:relcl
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 Hell	case
61	Hell	Hell	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 sitting	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 offer	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 offer	cc
64	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 offer	nsubj
65	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 returns	parataxis
66	up	up	ADP	_	65 offer	compound:prt
67	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 offer	obl
68	to	to	ADP	_	70 Ivan	case
69	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 Ivan	compound
70	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 thanks	nmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returns	punct
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 returns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	present	man			to straightway's house	tree rules
2	find	present	man not said here	straightway	the point of death		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at point=Asset
3	throw	present	man not said here	the rose bush		into the cellar result; straightway's death obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bush=Theme into cellar=Result
4	cry speech: express	present · progressive	man's love				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shake	present	the whole building			to building's foundations; immediately property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	become in a quote	present	man not said here	a island			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	is a in a quote	present		which people			tree rules
8	sit in a quote	past · perfect · progressive	which people		Hell		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hell=Location
9	offer up in a quote	present		thanks to Prince Ivan			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
10	point			death			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
11	love		man				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
12	die in a quote		straightway				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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