Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 209

[222] _Zashumyeli_, they began to produce a _shum_ or noise.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: begin, produce · To what, where: shum

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 222	punct
2	222	222	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 222	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Zashumyeli	punct
5	Zashumyeli	Zashumyeli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 222	appos
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Zashumyeli	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 222	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 produce	mark
11	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shum	det
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 shum	punct
14	shum	shum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 produce	obj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 noise	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 noise	cc
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 produce	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 222	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	eyes = eye						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	produce	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	a shum				noise obl	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shum=Result

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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