Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 63
His corpse burst, and out of it crept snakes, worms, and all sorts of reptiles, and up came flying crows, magpies, and jackdaws.
Who acts: corpse burst, sorts, Warlock · What happens: creep, come, fly, burst, sort · To what, where: snakes, flying crows, reptiles
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 (corpse burst, sorts, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 burst | nmod:poss |
| 2 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | compound |
| 3 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crept | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 crept | mark |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 out | fixed |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crept | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worms | punct |
| 12 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snakes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sorts | det |
| 16 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 reptiles | case |
| 18 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sorts | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crept | conj |
| 23 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 crows | amod |
| 24 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 magpies | punct |
| 26 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 crows | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 jackdaws | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 jackdaws | cc |
| 29 | jackdaws | jackdaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 crows | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | Warlock's corpse burst | snakes and worms | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location snake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | all sorts of reptiles | flying crows and magpies and jackdaws | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | burst | Warlock | nom burst «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sort | reptiles | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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