Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 126

At last they cast their eyes on the stove; at that moment, luckily for the Soldier, the cocks began to crow.

Who acts: devils, cocks · What happens: cast, begin, crow · To what, where: eyes, last

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 (devils, cocks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cast	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cast	nsubj
4	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cast	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stove	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stove	det
9	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 moment	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 luckily	punct
15	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	13 moment	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 Soldier	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Soldier	det
18	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 moment	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cocks	det
21	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 moment	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 crow	mark
24	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	present	devils = devil	devils's eyes	last	moment	on the stove	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at last=Destination
2	begin	past	the cocks					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	crow	to-infinitive	the cocks 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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