Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 93

There gathered together, there came rolling up, a stormcloud; with a terrible raining and hailing did it empty itself over the Moujik's cornfields, cutting down all the crop as if with a knife--not even a single blade did it leave standing.

Who acts: stormcloud · What happens: gather, come, roll up, rain, hail, empty · To what, where: stormcloud, cornfields, crop, standing

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 (stormcloud), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 gathered	expl
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 gathered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 came	expl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 rolling	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stormcloud	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stormcloud	det
11	stormcloud	stormcloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolling	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 terrible	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 terrible	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 terrible	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gathered	conj
16	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 terrible	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hailing	cc
18	hailing	hail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 raining	conj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 empty	aux
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 empty	nsubj
21	empty	empty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hailing	advcl
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 empty	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	27 cornfields	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Moujik	det
25	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 cornfields	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Moujik	case
27	cornfields	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 empty	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cutting	punct
29	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 leave	csubj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 cutting	compound:prt
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 crop	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 crop	det
33	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cutting	obj
34	as	as	ADP	_	38 knife	case
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 knife	mark
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 knife	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 knife	det
38	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cutting	obl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 blade	punct
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 blade	advmod
41	even	even	ADV	_	44 blade	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 blade	det
43	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 blade	amod
44	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 knife	conj
45	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 leave	aux
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 leave	nsubj
47	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 raining	parataxis
48	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 leave	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	participle			there	together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past			there		tree rules
3	roll up	gerund		a stormcloud			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rain	gerund					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	hail	gerund					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
6	empty	past · do-support	stormcloud	stormcloud	the Moujik's cornfields		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent itself=Source
7	cut down	gerund		all crop		as a knife and a single blade	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crop=Product
8	leave	past · do-support	stormcloud	standing			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standing=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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