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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/) / 24 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 24 They returned home, but they hadn't had time to sit down when the thunder\[102\] crashed, the ceiling split open, and in flew a raven. **Who acts:** whirlwind, thunder, ceiling · **What happens:** return, not have, sit down, crash, split, fly · **To what, where:** raven This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirlwind, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:22:24 # text = They returned home, but they hadn't had time to sit down when the thunder[102] crashed, the ceiling split open, and in flew a raven. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 home home ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 102 102 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 in in SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | whirlwind | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | whirlwind | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | whirlwind *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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/25/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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