Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 101
Then came a bang! bang! from the coffin, and again the Tsarivna started up.
Who acts: bang, Tsarivna · What happens: come, start up · To what, where: bang, coffin
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bang, Tsarivna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bang | det |
| 4 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 bang | punct |
| 6 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 bang | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 coffin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coffin | det |
| 10 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 started | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsarivna | det |
| 15 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 started | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a bang | bang | the coffin | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from coffin=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | start up | past | the Tsarivna | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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