Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 16
The Soldier's heart thumped like anything; he all but tumbled down on the ground!
Who acts: heart · What happens: thump, tumble down · To what, where: ground
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 (heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Soldier | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thumped | nsubj |
| 5 | thumped | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 thumped | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tumbled | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tumbled | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 he | det |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tumbled | cc |
| 12 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thumped | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tumbled | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | past | the Soldier's heart | like anything | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tumble down | past | heart | the ground | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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