Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 149

Suddenly the pea-stalk breaks, they fall headlong and are never heard of again. "

Who acts: breaks · What happens: fall, not hear · To what, where: stalk breaks

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 (breaks), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 breaks	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 breaks	det
3	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stalk	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 pea	punct
5	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	compound
6	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fall	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 breaks	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
9	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fall	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux:pass
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 heard	advmod
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fall	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 again	case
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 heard	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	breaks = break	the stalk breaks				headlong property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not hear	present · passive	breaks = break not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus

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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