Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 65

He collects the children, but as they are "all ever so dirty" he puts them into boiling water by way of cleansing them, and so washes them to death.

Who acts: boy, children, way · What happens: collect, be, put, boil, cleanse, wash · To what, where: children, boiling water

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 (boy, children, way), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 collects	nsubj
2	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collects	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 puts	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 puts	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 dirty	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dirty	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dirty	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dirty	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 dirty	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 dirty	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 dirty	advmod
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 puts	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dirty	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 puts	nsubj
17	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 collects	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 puts	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 puts	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 way	case
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 puts	obl
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 cleansing	mark
25	cleansing	cleanse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 way	acl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cleansing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 washes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 washes	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 washes	advmod
30	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 collects	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 washes	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 washes	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 collects	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	present	boy	the children				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	children = child			ever	dirty property	tree rules
3	put	present	boy	children = child	boiling water		by way	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by way=Destination
4	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	cleanse	gerund	way not said here	children = child				vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	wash	present	boy not said here	children = child			to death	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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