Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 76
Suddenly a terrible hurricane arose, a mighty thunder smote, and the two mountains were torn asunder.
Who acts: terrible hurricane · What happens: arise, tear · To what, where: mighty thunder smote, two mountains
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 (terrible hurricane), 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 | _ | 5 arose | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hurricane | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hurricane | amod |
| 4 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smote | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 smote | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smote | amod |
| 9 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | compound |
| 10 | smote | smote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 torn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 torn | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mountains | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 mountains | nummod |
| 15 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 torn | aux:pass |
| 17 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arose | conj |
| 18 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 torn | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a terrible hurricane | a mighty thunder smote | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | the two mountains | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient asunder=Result |
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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