Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 155

Frost slid lower down the tree, cracked away more, snapped his fingers oftener than before.

Who acts: Frost, tree · What happens: slide, crack, snap · To what, where: tree, more

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, tree), 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	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slid	nsubj
2	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 slid	advmod
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cracked	punct
8	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tree	acl
9	away	away	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 cracked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 snapped	punct
12	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slid	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fingers	nmod:poss
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 oftener	nsubj
15	oftener	often	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 snapped	ccomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 before	case
17	before	before	ADV	_	15 oftener	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slide	past	Frost		the tree	low property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down tree=Trajectory
2	crack	participle	the tree not said here	more			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
3	snap	past					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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