Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 12
The lid of the coffin flew up; the Princess arose, leapt out, and cried--
Who acts: lid, Princess · What happens: fly up, arise, leapt out, cry
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 (lid, Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lid | det |
| 2 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coffin | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffin | det |
| 5 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lid | nmod |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 flew | compound:prt |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 arose | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 arose | nsubj |
| 11 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leapt | punct |
| 13 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 arose | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 leapt | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | the lid of the coffin | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arise | past | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leapt out | infinitive | the Princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the lid of the coffin 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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