Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 90

While she was thus engaged the forest began to roar, and out from it came Verlioka, "of vast stature, one-eyed, crook-nosed, bristly-headed, with tangled beard and moustaches half an ell long, and with a wooden boot on his one foot, supporting himself on a crutch, and giving vent to a terrible laughter."

Who acts: forest · What happens: engage, begin, roar, come, nose, head · To what, where: child, Verlioka, crutch, vent, terrible laughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 engaged	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 engaged	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 engaged	aux:pass
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 engaged	advmod
5	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 began	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 engaged	obj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 roar	mark
10	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
13	out	out	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 came	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
17	Verlioka	Verlioka	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stature	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 stature	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 stature	case
21	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stature	amod
22	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eyed	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 eyed	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
26	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stature	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nosed	punct
28	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nosed	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 crook	punct
30	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 eyed	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 headed	punct
32	bristly	bristly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 headed	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bristly	punct
34	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 nosed	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 beard	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 beard	case
37	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 beard	amod
38	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 headed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 moustaches	cc
40	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 beard	conj
41	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	43 ell	det:predet
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 ell	det
43	ell	ell	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 long	obl
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 beard	amod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 boot	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 boot	cc
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 boot	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 boot	det
49	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 boot	amod
50	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stature	conj
51	on	on	ADP	_	54 foot	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 foot	nmod:poss
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 foot	nummod
54	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 boot	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 supporting	punct
56	supporting	support	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
57	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	56 supporting	obj
58	on	on	ADP	_	60 crutch	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 crutch	det
60	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 supporting	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 giving	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 giving	cc
63	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 supporting	conj
64	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 giving	obj
65	to	to	ADP	_	68 laughter	case
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 laughter	det
67	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 laughter	amod
68	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 giving	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
70	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		child			thus property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer forest=Result
2	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	roar	to-infinitive						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	forest				of vast stature and a wooden boot on Verlioka's one foot; out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of stature=Initial_Location
5	nose in a quote	participle						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	head in a quote	participle					with tangled beard and moustaches	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	tangle in a quote	participle						tree rules
8	support in a quote	gerund	forest not said here	Verlioka		a crutch		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
9	give in a quote	gerund	forest not said here	vent	a terrible laughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to laughter=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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