Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 149
Out jumped the witch and began rushing about; round her swarmed devils, the room was full of them!
Who acts: room · What happens: jump, begin, rush, swarm, be · To what, where: witch
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 (room), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 began | cc |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 began | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 rushing | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 devils | punct |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 devils | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 devils | nmod:poss |
| 12 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 devils | amod |
| 13 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 devils | amod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the witch | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | swarm | participle | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | the room | of devils = devil; full property | tree rules |
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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