Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 81

Then came a fumbling round about the coffin--bang! bang!--up she started, and made straight for him.

Who acts: uproar · What happens: come, fumble, start, make

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 (uproar), 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	8 coffin	det
4	fumbling	fumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 coffin	nsubj
5	round	round	ADV	_	8 coffin	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 coffin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 bang	punct
10	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coffin	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 bang	punct
12	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 bang	punct
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 started	punct
15	up	up	ADP	_	17 started	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 started	nsubj
17	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
21	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 made	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		then	about a coffin and bang	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about coffin=Location
2	fumble	gerund				vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	start	past	uproar			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	make	past			for Michael; straight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary

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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