Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 50
Out jumped the cudgel, and took to thumping and smashing, and knocked over ever such a lot of people.
What happens: jump, take, thump, smash, knock over · To what, where: cudgel, lot
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: 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cudgel | det |
| 4 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 thumping | mark |
| 9 | thumping | thump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smashing | cc |
| 11 | smashing | smash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thumping | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knocked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knocked | cc |
| 14 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 knocked | compound:prt |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 knocked | advmod |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 lot | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lot | det |
| 19 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocked | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lot | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the cudgel | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cudgel=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | past | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | thump | gerund | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | smash | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | knock over | past | such lot of people | ever | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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