Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 117
Exactly at midnight there was a great blast of wind, the coffin began to rock, its lid flew off.
Who acts: great blast, coffin, lid · What happens: be, begin, fly off, blast · To what, where: rock, wind
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 (great blast, 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 | _ | 3 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blast | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blast | amod |
| 8 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blast | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coffin | det |
| 13 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blast | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rock | mark |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lid | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rock | acl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 flew | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great blast of wind | there | midnight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the coffin | rock | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fly off | past | coffin's lid | rock not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blast | wind | nom blast «act transitive»: of=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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