Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 11
But at last some women open it, during his absence from a cottage in which he has left it, and out rush the fiends with a crash and a roar.
Who acts: process · What happens: open, leave, rush, absent · To what, where: whole, last, cottage, fiends
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (process), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 open | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 open | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 women | det |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 open | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 absence | punct |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 absence | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 absence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 absence | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 left | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rush | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rush | cc |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 rush | advmod |
| 24 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fiends | det |
| 26 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rush | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 crash | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 crash | det |
| 29 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rush | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 roar | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 roar | det |
| 32 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crash | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | whole | last | during process's absence from a cottage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | process | whole | a cottage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 3 | rush | present | the fiends | with a crash and a roar; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fiend=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | absent | process | a cottage | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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