Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 127

In the twinkling of an eye all the devils had vanished, and the witch lay all of a heap on the floor.

Who acts: devils, witch · What happens: vanish, lie · To what, where: twinkling, all, floor

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, witch), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 twinkling	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twinkling	det
3	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vanished	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 eye	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twinkling	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 devils	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 devils	det
9	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 vanished	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vanished	aux
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vanished	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 lay	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 heap	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heap	det
20	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 all	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	all devils			the twinkling of a eye			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	the witch	all		the floor			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme

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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