Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 127
And they set to work fighting; the dust flew like anything.
Who acts: tapers, dust · What happens: set, work, fight, fly
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tapers, dust), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 set | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 work | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dust | det |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 anything | case |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 flew | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | tapers = taper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | tapers = taper not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fly | past | the dust | like anything | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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