Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 89

Frost began to descend lower, all the more cracking and snapping his fingers.

Who acts: Frost · What happens: begin, descend, snap · To what, where: fingers

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	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 descend	mark
4	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 descend	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cracking	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cracking	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cracking	det
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 cracking	amod
10	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 snapping	cc
12	snapping	snap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cracking	conj
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	12 snapping	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Frost			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	descend	to-infinitive	Frost not said here		low property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snap	gerund	Frost not said here	pigeon's fingers		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=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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