Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 53

When the merchant mentioned the devil's name, the fiend immediately appeared at the threshold, began seizing the gold and silver wares, and flinging in their place bits of pottery.

Who acts: merchant, fiend, silver, devil · What happens: mention, appear, begin, seize, ware, fling · To what, where: name, threshold, gold, place bits

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, fiend, silver, devil), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 mentioned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mentioned	nsubj
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 appeared	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 devil	det
6	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 devil	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mentioned	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mentioned	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fiend	det
11	fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appeared	nsubj
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	13 appeared	advmod
13	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 threshold	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 threshold	det
16	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appeared	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 appeared	conj
19	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gold	det
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seizing	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wares	cc
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wares	nsubj
24	wares	ware	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gold	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flinging	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flinging	cc
27	flinging	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 seizing	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 bits	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bits	nmod:poss
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bits	compound
31	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flinging	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 pottery	case
33	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bits	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	past	the merchant	the devil's name			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	appear	past	the fiend		the threshold	immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at threshold=Location
3	begin	past	the fiend not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	seize	gerund	the fiend not said here	the gold			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
5	ware	present	silver	the gold not said here			tree rules
6	fling	gerund	the fiend not said here		merchants's place bits of pottery		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bit=Destination
7	name		the devil				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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