Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 10

This commission also the Novgorod man fulfilled, and behold! during the night the brook Chorny ran riotous, Lake Ilmen waxed boisterous, a tempest arose, and the raging waters swept away the mill.

Who acts: commission, brook, Lake, tempest, raging waters · What happens: fulfil, run, wax, arise, rage, sweep away · To what, where: mill

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commission, brook, Lake, tempest), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 commission	det
2	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fulfilled	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	7 fulfilled	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fulfilled	nsubj
7	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
10	behold	behold	INTJ	_	18 ran	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 behold	punct
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brook	det
16	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	nsubj
17	Chorny	Chorny	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 brook	appos
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fulfilled	conj
19	riotous	riotous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ran	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waxed	punct
21	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 waxed	nsubj
22	Ilmen	Ilmen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Lake	flat
23	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fulfilled	conj
24	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 waxed	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arose	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tempest	det
27	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arose	nsubj
28	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waxed	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 swept	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 swept	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 waters	det
32	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 waters	amod
33	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 swept	nsubj
34	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fulfilled	conj
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 swept	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mill	det
37	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swept	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fulfilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fulfil	past	this commission				tree rules
2	run	past	the brook		night	riotous property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wax	past	Lake			boisterous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	arise	past	a tempest				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rage	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sweep away	past	the raging waters	the mill		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mill=Trajectory

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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