The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 37

They returned home, but they hadn’t had time to sit down when the thunder crashed, the ceiling split open, and in flew a raven.

Who acts: sisters, thunder, ceiling · What happens: return, not have, sit down, crash, split, fly · To what, where: raven

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, thunder, ceiling), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 returned	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 returned	conj
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sit	mark
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 time	acl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sit	compound:prt
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 crashed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thunder	det
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crashed	nsubj
17	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 split	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ceiling	det
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 split	nsubj
21	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	parataxis
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 split	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flew	cc
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 flew	mark
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 split	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 raven	det
28	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	sisters = sister			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not have	past · perfect	sisters = sister		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	crash	past	the thunder				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	split	past	the ceiling			open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fly	past	the ceiling not said here	a raven			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location raven=Theme

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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