Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 99
The church shook, the altar candelabra were thrown down, the holy images fell on their faces.
Who acts: church, holy images · What happens: shake, throw down, fall · To what, where: altar candelabra, faces
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 (church, holy images), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrown | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 candelabra | det |
| 6 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 candelabra | compound |
| 7 | candelabra | candelabra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | aux:pass |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 thrown | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 images | det |
| 13 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 images | amod |
| 14 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 faces | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 faces | nmod:poss |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the church | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | throw down | past · passive | the altar candelabra | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the holy images | rustling's faces | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
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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