Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 51

And so at the present day, according to Russian tradition, the Prophet Ilya thunders across the sky in a flaming car, and smites the clouds with the darts of the lightning.

Who acts: Prophet Ilya · What happens: accord, thunder, smite · To what, where: sky, clouds

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prophet Ilya), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 thunders	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	16 thunders	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thunders	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tradition	punct
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 tradition	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tradition	amod
11	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Ilya	det
14	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ilya	compound
15	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 thunders	nsubj
16	thunders	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 sky	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sky	det
19	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thunders	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 car	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 car	det
22	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 car	compound
23	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thunders	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smites	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smites	cc
26	smites	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thunders	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 clouds	det
28	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 smites	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 darts	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 darts	det
31	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 clouds	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 lightning	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lightning	det
34	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 darts	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 thunders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	thunder	present	the Prophet Ilya		the sky	day	in a flaming car	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location
3	smite	present	the Prophet Ilya not said here	the clouds			with the darts of the lightning	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient with dart=Instrument

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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