Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 52

She went round the church, found a ladder, set it against a window, and climbed up it to see what was going on inside.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: go, find, set, climb up, see, go on · To what, where: church, ladder, window · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stranger), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ladder	det
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 found	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 set	obj
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 climbed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 climbed	cc
18	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 climbed	compound:prt
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 climbed	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 climbed	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 going	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 see	ccomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 going	compound:prt
27	inside	inside	ADV	_	25 going	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	stranger		the church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial_Location
2	find	past	stranger not said here	a ladder			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ladder=Attribute clause=Theme
3	set	infinitive		ladder	a window		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against window=Destination
4	climb up	past		ladder			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go on	past · progressive				inside property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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