Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 51

After a little time "behold! the block already had legs.

Who acts: block · What happens: have · To what, where: legs

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (block), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 time	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 block	det
9	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	the block	legs			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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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