Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 80
At the midnight hour the passage door creaked and the sound of steps was heard; the witch was coming!
Who acts: passage door, witch · What happens: creak, hear, come · To what, where: sound
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 (passage door, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | compound |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creaked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creaked | nsubj |
| 8 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 steps | case |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sound | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux:pass |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 creaked | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 coming | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 creaked | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 creaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | past | the passage door | hour | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the sound of steps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | the witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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