Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 121
Gunnar fails to do so, but Sigurd succeeds; his horse leaps into the fire, "and a mighty roar arose as the fire burned ever madder, and the earth trembled, and the flames went up even unto the heavens, nor had any dared to ride as he rode, even as it were through the deep murk."
Who acts: Gunnar, Sigurd, horse, mighty roar, fire, earth · What happens: fail, not do, succeed, leap, arise, burn · To what, where: fire, any, deep murk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gunnar, Sigurd, horse, mighty roar), 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 | Gunnar | Gunnar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fails | nsubj |
| 2 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fails | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 succeeds | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 succeeds | cc |
| 8 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 succeeds | nsubj |
| 9 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fails | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaps | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaps | nsubj |
| 13 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fails | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaps | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fire | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fire | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arose | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 roar | det |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 roar | amod |
| 22 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arose | nsubj |
| 23 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leaps | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 burned | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burned | nsubj |
| 27 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 arose | advcl |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 madder | advmod |
| 29 | madder | mad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 burned | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trembled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trembled | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 earth | det |
| 33 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 trembled | nsubj |
| 34 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fails | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 went | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 flames | det |
| 38 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 trembled | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 went | compound:prt |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 44 heavens | advmod |
| 42 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 44 heavens | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 heavens | det |
| 44 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 went | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 had | punct |
| 46 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 47 had | cc |
| 47 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 trembled | conj |
| 48 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 had | obj |
| 49 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 any | acl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 ride | mark |
| 51 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 dared | xcomp |
| 52 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 54 rode | mark |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 rode | nsubj |
| 54 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 ride | ccomp |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 murk | punct |
| 56 | even | even | ADV | _ | 63 murk | advmod |
| 57 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 63 murk | mark |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 murk | nsubj |
| 59 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 murk | cop |
| 60 | through | through | ADP | _ | 63 murk | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 murk | det |
| 62 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 murk | amod |
| 63 | murk | murk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 rode | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fails | punct |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present | Gunnar | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | Gunnar not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | succeed | present | Sigurd | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leap | present | Gunnar's horse | the fire | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fire=Destination | ||||
| 5 | arise in a quote | past | a mighty roar | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | burn in a quote | past | the fire | mad property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tremble in a quote | past | the earth | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go up in a quote | past | the flames | unto the heavens | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 9 | have in a quote | past | the earth not said here | any | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 10 | dare in a quote | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 11 | ride in a quote | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 12 | ride in a quote | past | fire | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 13 | is in a quote | past | flame | the deep murk | tree rules |
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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