Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 108

The conflagration spread and was followed by famine, so that the whole land was involved in ruin.

Who acts: conflagration, famine, whole land · What happens: spread, follow, be · To what, where: ruin

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 (conflagration, famine, whole land), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 conflagration	det
2	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 followed	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	aux:pass
6	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spread	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 famine	case
8	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 involved	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 involved	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 land	amod
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 involved	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 involved	cop
16	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 followed	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 ruin	case
18	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 involved	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the conflagration			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	past · passive	famine			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the whole land	ruin	involved property	tree rules

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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