Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 62
The pyre became wrapped in flames, the Warlock began to burn.
Who acts: pyre, Warlock · What happens: become, wrap, begin, burn · To what, where: flames
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pyre, Warlock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pyre | det |
| 2 | pyre | pyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 flames | case |
| 6 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Warlock | det |
| 9 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 burn | mark |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the pyre | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | the pyre not said here | flames | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in flame=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Warlock | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | burn | to-infinitive | the Warlock not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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