Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 97

He sprang to the door and vanished as though the earth had swallowed him up: and it was night.

Who acts: gate, earth · What happens: spring, vanish, swallow up, be · To what, where: door, earth, night

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vanished	cc
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
8	as	as	ADV	_	7 vanished	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 swallowed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swallowed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 swallowed	aux
13	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 vanished	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swallowed	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 swallowed	compound:prt
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 night	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 night	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 night	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 night	cop
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	gate		the door		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination
2	vanish	past	gate not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swallow up	past · perfect · passive		the earth		gate obj	tree rules
4	is a	past	earth	night			tree rules

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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 97