Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 31
Just before daybreak the Princess rushed to her coffin--then the fire seemed to go out immediately, and all the deviltry vanished!
Who acts: Princess, fire, deviltry · What happens: rush, seem, go out, vanish · To what, where: coffin
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 (Princess, fire, deviltry), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 daybreak | case |
| 3 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Just | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 coffin | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 seemed | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rushed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 go | compound:prt |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 vanished | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 vanished | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 deviltry | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 deviltry | det |
| 23 | deviltry | deviltry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vanished | nsubj |
| 24 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rushed | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the Princess | princess's coffin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to coffin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the fire | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go out | to-infinitive | the fire not said here | immediately property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | vanish | past | all deviltry | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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