Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 147

Midnight came, the wind blew, the coffin began to rock, the coffin lid fell afar off on the ground.

Who acts: Midnight, wind, coffin, coffin lid · What happens: come, blow, begin, fall · To what, where: rock, ground

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 (Midnight, wind, coffin, 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	Midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blew	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	nsubj
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coffin	det
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rock	mark
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lid	det
15	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lid	compound
16	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
18	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	xcomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 afar	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Midnight				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	past	the wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	begin	past	the coffin	rock			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Eventuality
4	fall	past	the coffin lid		the ground	afar property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

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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