Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 146
Suddenly, as if rising from the earth, there appeared before him a very old man.
What happens: rise, appear · To what, where: earth, old man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rising | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 rising | mark |
| 5 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 appeared | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rising | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 appeared | expl |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appeared | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | the earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | a old man | there | before man | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/146/