Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 19

All was ready in a trice, and he began treating the lads and lasses, giving each a share.

Who acts: All, festival · What happens: be, begin, treat, give · To what, where: trice, lads, share

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, festival), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ready	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	cop
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trice	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trice	det
6	trice	trice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ready	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	conj
11	treating	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lads	det
13	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 treating	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lasses	cc
15	lasses	lass	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lads	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
17	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 treating	conj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 share	det
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 share	det
20	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	All		a trice	ready property	tree rules
2	begin	past	festival				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	treat	gerund	festival not said here	the lads and lasses			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient
4	give	gerund	festival not said here	each share			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=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.

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