Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 130

They let the flash pass unheeded, but they take the precaution of crossing themselves when the roar follows.

Who acts: peasants, flash, precaution, roar · What happens: let, pass, take, cross, follow · To what, where: flash, precaution, peasants

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, flash, precaution, roar), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flash	det
4	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pass	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 take	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
10	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 precaution	det
12	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 crossing	mark
14	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 precaution	acl
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 crossing	obj
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 follows	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roar	det
18	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 follows	nsubj
19	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crossing	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	peasants = peasant	the flash		tree rules
2	pass	infinitive	the flash not said here		unheeded property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	peasants = peasant	the precaution		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme
4	cross	gerund	the precaution not said here	peasants = peasant		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
5	follow	present	the roar			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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