Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 29

It seemed to him as if a fire had broken out in the church; all the walls were wrapped in flames!

Who acts: It · What happens: seem, break out, wrap · To what, where: lid, fire, church, walls, flames

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 (It), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 broken	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 broken	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 broken	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 church	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 church	det
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broken	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wrapped	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 walls	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walls	det
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wrapped	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wrapped	aux:pass
20	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 flames	case
22	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wrapped	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	It		lid		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	break out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a fire		the church	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	wrap	past · passive		all walls		flames	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in flame=Destination

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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