Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 5
Round her came swarming countless devils, the izba was full of them!
Who acts: izba · What happens: come, swarm, be · To what, where: countless devils
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 (izba), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 came | nmod:poss |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | advcl |
| 4 | swarming | swarm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 devils | amod |
| 6 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swarming | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 izba | det |
| 9 | izba | izba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the izba not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swarm | gerund | the izba not said here | countless devils | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location devil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the izba | of devils = devil; full property | tree rules |
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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