Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 8

A fiddler was on his way to the revel when, all of a sudden, he sank into the earth--sank right through and tumbled into hell, lighting exactly there where the rich moujik was being tormented.

Who acts: fiddler, all · What happens: be, sink, tumble, light, torment · To what, where: way, earth, hell, rich moujik

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiddler, all), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fiddler	det
2	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 revel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 revel	det
9	revel	revel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 sank	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sank	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sudden	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sudden	det
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 all	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sank	nsubj
18	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sank	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 earth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sank	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 sank	punct
23	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	parataxis
24	right	right	ADV	_	25 through	advmod
25	through	through	ADV	_	23 sank	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tumbled	cc
27	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sank	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 hell	case
29	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tumbled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lighting	punct
31	lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 tumbled	advcl
32	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	33 there	advmod
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 lighting	advmod
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 tormented	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 moujik	det
36	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 moujik	amod
37	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tormented	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tormented	aux:pass
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 tormented	aux:pass
40	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lighting	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a fiddler		moujik's way	to the revel	tree rules
2	sink	past	all		the earth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sink	past				through property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	tumble	participle			hell		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hell=Initial_Location
5	light	gerund			there		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	torment	past · passive		the rich moujik			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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