Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 140

Now, a good way off, Frost had begun cracking, snapping his fingers, and leaping from fir to fir.

Who acts: Frost · What happens: begin, snap, leap, fir · To what, where: good way, fingers, fir

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 (Frost), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 begun	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begun	obl:unmarked
6	off	off	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
8	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 begun	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begun	aux
10	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begun	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snapping	punct
13	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 begun	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 snapping	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leaping	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leaping	cc
18	leaping	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 snapping	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 fir	case
20	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaping	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fir	mark
22	fir	fir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 leaping	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	Frost	a good way		now	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cracking=Eventuality
2	snap	gerund	Frost not said here	Whyever's fingers			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme
3	leap	gerund	Frost not said here		fir		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fir=Trajectory
4	fir	to-infinitive	Frost not said here				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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