Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 125

At last Vikhor, after soaring on high, struck the ground, and fell to pieces, becoming a fine yellow sand. "

What happens: soar, strike, fall, become · To what, where: high, ground, last Vikhor, fine yellow sand

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Vikhor	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Vikhor	amod
3	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 struck	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Vikhor	punct
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 soaring	mark
6	soaring	soar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 struck	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 high	case
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soaring	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soaring	punct
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struck	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 struck	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 becoming	punct
19	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fell	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sand	det
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sand	amod
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sand	amod
23	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 becoming	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 struck	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	soar	gerund		high		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on high=Trajectory
2	strike	past	the ground	last Vikhor		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient
3	fall	past			to pieces	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme
4	become	gerund	a fine yellow sand			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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