Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 64

The peasants knocked them down and flung them into the fire, not allowing so much as a single maggot to creep away!

Who acts: peasants · What happens: knock down, fling, not allow, creep away · To what, where: crows, fire

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 (peasants), 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 peasants	det
2	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 knocked	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flung	cc
7	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flung	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 allowing	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 allowing	advmod
14	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flung	advcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	14 allowing	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 maggot	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 maggot	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 maggot	amod
20	maggot	maggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 allowing	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 creep	mark
22	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allowing	advcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 creep	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	the peasants	crows = crow			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	fling	past	the peasants not said here	crows = crow	the fire		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into fire=Destination
3	not allow	gerund	the peasants not said here			as a single maggot	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	creep away	to-infinitive	the peasants not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2 «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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