Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 84

As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of thread, that instant will death arrive!"

Who acts: we, instant · What happens: break, use up, arrive · To what, where: trunkful

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 (we, instant), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 broken	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 broken	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 broken	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 arrive	advcl
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 trunkful	det
8	trunkful	trunkful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 needles	case
10	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trunkful	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 broken	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 used	compound:prt
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 trunkful	det
16	trunkful	trunkful	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 thread	case
18	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trunkful	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 arrive	punct
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 instant	det
21	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrive	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 arrive	aux
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrive	nsubj
24	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 arrive	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 arrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present · perfect	we	that trunkful of needles	soon property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trunkful=Patient
2	use up	participle	we not said here	that trunkful of thread		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunkful=Patient
3	arrive	future	that instant			vn escape-51.1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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