Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 121

All of a sudden there appeared the white horseman, and all was light.

Who acts: All · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: white horseman

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 appeared	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sudden	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sudden	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 All	nmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 appeared	advmod
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horseman	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horseman	amod
9	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 light	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 light	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 light	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 light	cop
14	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	All	the white horseman		there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horseman=Theme
2	is	past	all					light property	tree rules

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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