Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 4
Exactly at midnight up flies the evil spirit, assumes the form of a man, and tries to enter the room.
What happens: fly up, assume, try, enter, form · To what, where: evil spirit, form, room, man
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: 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 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | obl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 flies | compound:prt |
| 5 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirit | det |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirit | amod |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 assumes | punct |
| 10 | assumes | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flies | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assumes | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tries | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tries | cc |
| 18 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flies | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enter | mark |
| 20 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tries | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enter | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | present | the evil spirit | midnight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spirit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assume | present | the form of a man | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | present | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||||
| 5 | form | a man | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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