Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 59
To and fro it flew, and then stood still before the old man, as if rooted in the ground, and cried,
Who acts: flame · What happens: fly, stand, root, cry · To what, where: ground
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 (flame), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 5 flew | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flew | cc |
| 3 | fro | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 flew | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rooted | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 rooted | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 rooted | mark |
| 18 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stood | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rooted | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cried | cc |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | flame | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | flame not said here | before the old man; then; still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before man=Location | ||||
| 3 | root a condition, not said to happen | participle | flame not said here | the ground | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | flame not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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