Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 67

There was a shaking of the bier--bang! bang!--and the Tsarivna arose from her coffin and came straight toward him.

Who acts: shaking, Tsarivna · What happens: be, arise, come, shake · To what, where: coffin, bier

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 (shaking, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shaking	det
4	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bier	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bier	det
7	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaking	nmod
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 bang	punct
9	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bier	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 bang	punct
11	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 bang	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 arose	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 arose	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tsarivna	det
16	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 arose	nsubj
17	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 coffin	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 coffin	nmod:poss
20	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arose	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 arose	conj
23	straight	straight	ADV	_	25 him	advmod
24	toward	toward	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a shaking of the bier and bang		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arise	past	the Tsarivna		shaking's coffin		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the Tsarivna not said here			toward lord	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward he=Initial_Location
4	shake			the bier and bang			nom shaking «act 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: «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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