Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 157

Suddenly the cocks began to crow, the devils vanished, the witch lay stretched on the floor.

Who acts: cocks, devils, witch · What happens: begin, crow, vanish, lie, stretch · To what, where: 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 (cocks, 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cocks	det
3	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 crow	mark
6	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vanished	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 devils	det
9	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vanished	nsubj
10	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 vanished	advcl
15	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lay	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 floor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 floor	det
18	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stretched	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cocks		suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	crow	to-infinitive	the cocks not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	vanish	past	the devils			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	the witch			tree rules
5	stretch	participle	the witch not said here	the floor		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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