Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 27

Twelve o'clock struck, the coffin lid fell to the ground, the Princess jumped up and began tearing from side to side, and threatening the youth.

Who acts: Twelve o'clock, coffin lid, Princess · What happens: strike, fall, jump up, begin, tear, threaten · To what, where: side, youth

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 (Twelve o'clock, coffin lid, Princess), 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	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 o'clock	nummod
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lid	det
6	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lid	compound
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jumped	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 jumped	nsubj
15	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 jumped	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 jumped	conj
19	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 began	xcomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 side	case
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tearing	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 side	case
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tearing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 threatening	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 threatening	cc
26	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 struck	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 youth	det
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threatening	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	Twelve o'clock				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the coffin lid			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
3	jump up	past	the Princess				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the Princess not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tear	gerund	the Princess not said here		side	to side	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination
6	threaten	gerund	Twelve o'clock not said here	the youth			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus youth=Experiencer

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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