Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 114

And when the "rats, frogs, and all manner of vermin," enter the bath-room, "she crushed half of them to death," says the story; "the rest ran home, and complained about her to their mother."

Who acts: rats, manner, story, rest · What happens: enter, crush, say, run, complain · To what, where: bath room, half, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rats, manner, story, rest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 enter	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 enter	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rats	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 rats	punct
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 enter	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 frogs	punct
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rats	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 enter	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 enter	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 manner	det
11	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enter	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 vermin	case
13	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 manner	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 enter	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 enter	punct
16	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
18	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bath	punct
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enter	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crushed	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 crushed	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 crushed	nsubj
24	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 room	acl:relcl
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 crushed	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 half	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crushed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crushed	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
32	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 crushed	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 story	det
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 says	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 ran	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 ran	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rest	det
38	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ran	nsubj
39	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 enter	parataxis
40	home	home	ADV	_	39 ran	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 complained	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 complained	cc
43	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 ran	conj
44	about	about	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 complained	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 mother	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 mother	nmod:poss
48	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 complained	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 enter	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 enter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	enter	infinitive	the rats and frogs	the bath room			tree rules
2	crush in a quote	past	manner	half of rats		to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent half=Patient to death=Result
3	say speech: assert	present	the story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	run in a quote	past	the rest			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	complain speech: other in a quote	past	the rest not said here		rats's mother	about manner	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent about she=Topic to mother=Recipient

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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