Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 111

But the Vulture fell on the Raven; the Raven began to croak before it had caught up the river Dnieper.

Who acts: Vulture, Raven · What happens: fall, begin, croak, catch up · To what, where: Raven, way

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vulture, Raven), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Vulture	det
3	Vulture	Vulture	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Raven	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Raven	det
7	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Raven	det
10	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 croak	mark
13	croak	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 caught	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caught	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caught	aux
17	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 croak	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 caught	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obj
21	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 river	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	past	the Vulture		the Raven	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on raven=Location
2	begin	past	the Raven			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	croak	to-infinitive	the Raven not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch up	past · perfect · passive		way		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary river=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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