Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 107

After a time it became red-hot, and then it leaped out from amid the flames, and dashed about setting fire to all manner of things.

Who acts: knife · What happens: become, leap out, dash, set · To what, where: flames, amid, fire

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knife), 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	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hot	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leaped	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 leaped	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leaped	nsubj
13	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 leaped	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 amid	case
16	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaped	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flames	det
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leaped	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dashed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dashed	cc
21	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
22	about	about	SCONJ	_	23 setting	mark
23	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 dashed	advcl
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 setting	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 manner	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 manner	det
27	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 setting	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 things	case
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 manner	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	knife			time	hot property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	leap out	past	knife	the flames	amid	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location flame=Theme
3	dash	past	knife not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set	gerund	knife not said here	fire			to all manner of things	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=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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