Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 22

The flame leapt high into the air, the Soldier began to roast: first one foot, then the other, he drew up under him.

Who acts: flame, Soldier · What happens: leap, begin, roast, draw up · To what, where: air, one foot

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 (flame, Soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3927): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flame	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leapt	nsubj
3	leapt	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 leapt	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leapt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Soldier	det
10	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leapt	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 roast	mark
13	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 foot	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 foot	nummod
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 other	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 other	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 foot	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 drew	compound:prt
26	under	under	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leap	past	the flame		the air	high property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
2	begin	past	the Soldier				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	roast	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	draw up	past	Soldier	one foot		under flame	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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