Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 105

Exactly at midnight a strong wind will suddenly begin to blow, the coffin will begin to shake, its lid will fall off.

Who acts: strong wind, coffin, lid · What happens: begin, blow, shake, fall off

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong wind, coffin, lid), 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	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 begin	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exactly	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wind	det
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wind	amod
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begin	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 begin	aux
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 begin	advmod
9	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 blow	mark
11	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begin	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begin	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coffin	det
14	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begin	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 begin	aux
16	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 blow	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 shake	mark
18	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begin	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fall	punct
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lid	nmod:poss
21	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fall	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fall	aux
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shake	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 fall	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	future	a strong wind	exactly, suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	blow	to-infinitive	a strong wind not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	begin	future	the coffin		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	shake	to-infinitive	the coffin not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	fall off	future	coffin's lid		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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