Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 14

Thereupon the birds also rose up, and immediately fell to the ground, where the beasts tore them to bits.

Who acts: birds, beasts · What happens: rise up, fall, tore · To what, where: birds

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, beasts), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	5 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 rose	advmod
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 rose	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
9	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tore	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 tore	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beasts	det
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tore	nsubj
18	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tore	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 bits	case
21	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tore	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the birds		thereupon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the birds not said here		to the ground; immediately property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
3	tore	past	the beasts	birds = bird	to bits	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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