Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 112

The hero Conall kicks "one of the posts that was keeping the turret aloft," the post breaks, and the turret falls, but Conall catches it in his hands before it reaches the ground, a door opens, and out comes the Princess Sunbeam, and throws her arms about Conall's neck.

Who acts: hero, posts, post, turret, Conall, door · What happens: kick, keep, break, fall, catch, reach · To what, where: one, turret, hands, ground, arms

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, posts, post, turret), 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 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicks	nsubj
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kicks	nsubj
4	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kicks	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 posts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 posts	det
9	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 keeping	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 keeping	aux
12	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 posts	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 turret	det
14	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeping	obj
15	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keeping	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 breaks	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 breaks	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 post	det
19	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breaks	nsubj
20	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kicks	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 falls	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 falls	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 turret	det
24	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 falls	nsubj
25	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 breaks	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 catches	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 catches	cc
28	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 catches	nsubj
29	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kicks	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 catches	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hands	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hands	nmod:poss
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 catches	obl
34	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 reaches	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 reaches	nsubj
36	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 catches	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reaches	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 opens	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 door	det
41	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 opens	nsubj
42	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 reaches	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 comes	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 comes	cc
45	out	out	ADV	_	46 comes	advmod
46	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kicks	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Sunbeam	det
48	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Sunbeam	compound
49	Sunbeam	Sunbeam	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 comes	nsubj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 throws	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 throws	cc
52	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kicks	conj
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 arms	nmod:poss
54	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 throws	obj
55	about	about	ADP	_	58 neck	case
56	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 neck	nmod:poss
57	's	's	PART	_	56 Conall	case
58	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 throws	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kicks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kick	present	the hero	one of the posts			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	keep in a quote	past · progressive	the posts	the turret		aloft property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turret=Theme
3	break	present	the post				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	fall	present	the turret				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	present	Conall	turret	Conall's hands		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	reach	present	turret	the ground			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
7	open	present	a door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	present	the Princess Sunbeam			out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	throw	present	the hero not said here	Sunbeam's arms		about Conall's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme about neck=Destination

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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