Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 66

After him followed the thunder and the lightning, and so he rushed over the whole face of the earth, hills springing up where he coughed, and sky-cleaving mountains where he leaped.

Who acts: Devil, hills · What happens: follow, rush, spring up, cough, cleave, leap · To what, where: thunder, cleaving mountains, whole face

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil, hills), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 followed	mark
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thunder	det
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lightning	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lightning	det
8	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thunder	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rushed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rushed	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 rushed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rushed	nsubj
13	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	parataxis
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 face	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 face	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 face	amod
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rushed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hills	punct
22	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 earth	conj
23	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 hills	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 springing	compound:prt
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 coughed	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 coughed	nsubj
27	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 springing	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mountains	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mountains	cc
30	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cleaving	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 sky	punct
32	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 mountains	amod
33	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rushed	obl
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 leaped	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 leaped	nsubj
36	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mountains	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	follow	past	Devil	the thunder and the lightning		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme
2	rush	past	Devil	cleaving mountains	the whole face of the earth and hills	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Trajectory
3	spring up	gerund	hills not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cough	past	Devil			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cleave	gerund				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	leap	past	Devil			vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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