Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 74
The bough hadn't so much as reached the water before it all burst into a flame!
Who acts: bough · What happens: reach, burst · To what, where: water, flame
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 (bough), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bough | det |
| 2 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 much | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 much | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 much | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 much | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 burst | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 burst | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 burst | advmod |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 flame | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flame | det |
| 17 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burst | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | participle | the water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burst | past | bough | a flame | all property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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