Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 24

All of a sudden, luckily for him, the cocks began to crow, the devils vanished, the witch fell flat on the floor.

Who acts: cocks, devils, witch · What happens: begin, crow, vanish, fall · To what, where: floor

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 (cocks, devils, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 him	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sudden	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sudden	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 All	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 him	punct
6	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	8 him	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cocks	det
11	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 crow	mark
14	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vanished	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 devils	det
17	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 vanished	nsubj
18	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 vanished	conj
23	flat	flat	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cocks		for flame	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	crow	to-infinitive	the cocks not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	vanish	past	the devils			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	the witch	the floor	flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

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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