Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 128

Well, at the dead of night, the pope went straight to the old man's cottage, got under the window, and began knocking and scratching.

Who acts: pope · What happens: go, get, begin, knock, scratch · To what, where: cottage, window

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 dead	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dead	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pope	det
10	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	parataxis
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 cottage	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	18 cottage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cottage	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 man	case
18	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	conj
27	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 began	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 scratching	cc
29	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 knocking	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go	past	the pope	the old man's cottage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location
2	get	past	the pope not said here	the window	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	the pope not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	knock	gerund	the pope not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	scratch	gerund	the pope not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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