Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 92
They cut away the ceiling and the roof; it went on growing until it grew right up to the heavens (_nebo_).
Who acts: beans, ceiling · What happens: cut away, go, grow · To what, where: ceiling
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 (beans, ceiling), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 cut | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ceiling | det |
| 5 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 roof | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ceiling | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 growing | mark |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 grew | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 grew | advmod |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 heavens | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 heavens | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heavens | det |
| 21 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | obl |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 nebo | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 nebo | punct |
| 24 | nebo | nebo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heavens | appos |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 nebo | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 nebo | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut away | present | beans = bean | the ceiling and the roof | away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ceiling=Product | |||
| 2 | go | past | ceiling | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | ceiling not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | ceiling | up the heavens; right property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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