Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 132

It began to grow dusky; the black rider appeared for a moment at the gate, and all grew dark.

Who acts: table, black rider, all · What happens: begin, grow, appear · To what, where: gate

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 (table, black rider, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2162): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 grow	mark
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rider	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rider	amod
9	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	table				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	to-infinitive	table not said here			dusky property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	appear	past	the black rider	the gate	moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location
4	grow	past	all			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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