Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 80

The spray had not yet reached the water when it already turned green, budded, and put forth blossoms.

Who acts: spray · What happens: not reach, turn, bud, put · To what, where: water, blossoms

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 (spray), 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 spray	det
2	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 reached	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 reached	advmod
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 turned	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	advcl
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 turned	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 budded	punct
15	budded	bud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 green	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 reached	conj
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
20	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 put	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	past	the spray	the water	yet		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	turn	past	spray			green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	bud	participle	spray not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	put	participle	the spray not said here	blossoms		forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent blossom=Goal

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/80/