Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 112
Suddenly the day becomes darkened, the palace quivers, and Vikhor arrives; stamping on the ground, he becomes a noble gallant, who enters the palace, "holding in his hands a battle mace."
Who acts: day, palace, Vikhor, noble gallant · What happens: become, darken, quiver, arrive, stamp, enter · To what, where: ground, noble gallant, palace, battle mace, hands
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, palace, Vikhor, noble gallant), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 becomes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | nsubj |
| 4 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | darkened | darken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 becomes | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quivers | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quivers | nsubj |
| 9 | quivers | quiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 becomes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrives | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrives | cc |
| 12 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 arrives | nsubj |
| 13 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 quivers | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stamping | punct |
| 15 | stamping | stamp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 becomes | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stamping | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 becomes | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 becomes | nsubj |
| 21 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 becomes | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 gallant | det |
| 23 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gallant | amod |
| 24 | gallant | gallant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 becomes | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 enters | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 enters | nsubj |
| 27 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gallant | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enters | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 holding | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 holding | punct |
| 32 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 becomes | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hands | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hands | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 holding | obl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 mace | det |
| 37 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 mace | compound |
| 38 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 holding | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 holding | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 holding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the day | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | darken | participle | the day not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | quiver | present | the palace | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | arrive | present | Vikhor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stamp | gerund | the day not said here | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | ||||
| 6 | become | present | Vikhor | a noble gallant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | enter | present | a noble gallant | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 8 | hold in a quote | gerund | Vikhor not said here | a battle mace | Vikhor's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mace=Theme in hand=Location |
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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