Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 110

It grows up to the floor, up to the ceiling, up to the roof; each time way is made for it, and finally it grows right up to heaven (_do nebushka_).

Who acts: cottager, _ · What happens: grow up, make, grow, do · To what, where: time way, nebushka

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottager, _), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grows	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ceiling	punct
8	up	up	ADV	_	11 ceiling	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ceiling	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ceiling	det
11	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 roof	punct
13	up	up	ADV	_	16 roof	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 roof	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ceiling	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 way	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	compound
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grows	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grows	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grows	cc
27	finally	finally	ADV	_	29 grows	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grows	nsubj
29	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 made	conj
30	right	right	ADV	_	29 grows	advmod
31	up	up	ADP	_	33 heaven	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 heaven	case
33	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grows	obl
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 do	punct
35	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 do	nsubj
36	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 grows	parataxis
37	nebushka	nebushka	X	Foreign=Yes	36 do	obj
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 do	discourse
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 do	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	cottager		to the floor	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present · passive		each time way	for cottager	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for it=Asset
3	grow	present	cottager		up heaven; finally, right property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	_	nebushka		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nebushka=Eventuality

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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