Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 59

Just then from under the bench crawled Uncle Katoma, fell upon her like a mountain of stone, took to strangling her until the heaven seemed to her to disappear.

Who acts: heaven · What happens: crawl, fall, take, strangle, seem, disappear · To what, where: Uncle, bench, Ho

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 crawled	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 bench	case
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bench	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bench	det
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crawled	obl
7	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 crawled	obj
9	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Uncle	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crawled	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 mountain	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mountain	det
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 stone	case
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mountain	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crawled	parataxis
21	to	to	SCONJ	_	22 strangling	mark
22	strangling	strangle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 took	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 strangling	obj
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 seemed	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heaven	det
26	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 took	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 disappear	mark
31	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past		Uncle		the bench	then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location uncle=Theme
2	fall	past						upon Ho; like a mountain of stone	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
3	take	past							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	strangle	gerund		Ho					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	seem	past	the heaven		Ho				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	disappear	to-infinitive	the heaven not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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