Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 157

Presently the forest begins to roar, the sea rises in waves, and the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ flies up, lights upon the ground and begins to peck the wheat."

Who acts: forest, sea, Zhar _ · What happens: begin, roar, rise, fly up, light, peck · To what, where: waves, wheat

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 (forest, sea, Zhar _), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 begins	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begins	nsubj
4	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roar	mark
6	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begins	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rises	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rises	nsubj
10	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 begins	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 waves	case
12	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rises	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flies	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flies	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 _	det
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 Zhar	punct
17	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 _	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Zhar	punct
19	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Zhar	flat
20	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flies	nsubj
21	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 begins	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 flies	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lights	punct
24	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 flies	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lights	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begins	cc
29	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 begins	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 peck	mark
31	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begins	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wheat	det
33	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 peck	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begins	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	present	the forest			presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roar	to-infinitive	the forest not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rise	present	the sea		waves		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wave=Location
4	fly up	present	the Zhar _				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	light	present	the Zhar _ not said here			upon the ground	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	begin	present	the forest not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	peck	to-infinitive	the forest not said here	the wheat			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient

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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