Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 53

Sometimes we visit the hut of the poverty-stricken peasant, more like a shed for cattle than a human habitation, with a mud-floor and a tattered roof, through which the smoke makes its devious way.

Who acts: we, smoke · What happens: visit, tatter, make · To what, where: hut, devious way

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, smoke), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 visit	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 visit	nsubj
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 peasant	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
8	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stricken	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 poverty	punct
10	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 peasant	amod
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hut	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 visit	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 shed	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shed	det
16	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 cattle	case
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obl
19	than	than	ADP	_	22 habitation	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 habitation	det
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 habitation	amod
22	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cattle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 floor	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 floor	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 floor	det
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floor	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 mud	punct
28	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 habitation	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 roof	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 roof	det
31	tattered	tatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 roof	amod
32	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 habitation	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 makes	punct
34	through	through	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 makes	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 smoke	det
37	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 makes	nsubj
38	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 visit	parataxis
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 way	nmod:poss
40	devious	devious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 way	amod
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 makes	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	present	we	the hut of the stricken peasant	like a shed; for cattle than a human habitation with a mud floor and a tattered roof; sometimes property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Co-Agent
2	tatter	participle				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	the smoke	floor's devious way		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product

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.

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