Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 135

When all is still a Rakshasa appears on the threshold, opens the door, and thrusts into the room an arm--which the hero cuts off.

Who acts: Rakshasa, hero · What happens: be, appear, open, thrust, cut off · To what, where: Rakshasa, threshold, door, arm, room

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rakshasa, hero), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 appears	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Rakshasa	det
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Rakshasa	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 Rakshasa	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Rakshasa	det
6	Rakshasa	Rakshasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 appears	nsubj
7	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 opens	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 threshold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 threshold	det
10	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appears	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 opens	punct
12	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opens	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrusts	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thrusts	cc
17	thrusts	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 opens	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrusts	obl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 arm	det
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrusts	obj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 cuts	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 cuts	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hero	det
26	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cuts	nsubj
27	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 arm	acl:relcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cuts	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 opens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present		all Rakshasa		still	tree rules
2	appear	present	all Rakshasa		the threshold		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on threshold=Location
3	open	present		the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	thrust	present		a arm	the room		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	cut off	present	the hero	a arm			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector which=Eventuality

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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