Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 111

So long did they remain talking that, before the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ and his rider could get back, "the day began to dawn--the bird sank lower and lower and fell to the ground."

Who acts: rings, rider, day, bird · What happens: remain, talk, get back, begin, sink, fall

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rings, rider, day, bird), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 remain	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remain	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remain	nsubj
5	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 remain	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 Zhar	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
9	before	before	ADP	_	12 Zhar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Zhar	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Zhar	punct
12	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talking	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Ptitsa	punct
14	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Zhar	conj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 rider	nmod:poss
18	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Zhar	parataxis
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 get	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 dawn	mark
28	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 began	obj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 sank	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bird	det
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sank	nsubj
32	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dawn	parataxis
33	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 sank	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lower	cc
35	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 lower	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sank	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Zhar	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Zhar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past · do-support	rings = ring		long property	tree rules
2	talk	gerund	rings = ring not said here	before the Zhar and Ptitsa		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get back	could	Ptitsa's rider			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	begin in a quote	past	the day	dawn		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	sink in a quote	past	the bird		low property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fall in a quote	past	the bird not said here		to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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