Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 67

Suddenly the grave began to open beneath him: he felt the movement and sprang to his feet.

Who acts: grave, moujik · What happens: begin, open, feel, spring · To what, where: movement, feet

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 (grave, moujik), 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	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grave	det
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 open	mark
6	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 open	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 movement	det
13	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sprang	cc
15	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sprang	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the grave			suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	open	to-infinitive	the grave not said here			beneath moujik	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Location
3	feel	past	moujik	the movement			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
4	spring	past	moujik not said here		moujik's feet		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination

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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