Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 133

[34]" shrieked the moujik, and began crossing himself and uttering prayers.

Who acts: 34 · What happens: shriek, begin, cross, utter · To what, where: moujik, word, prayers

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 (34), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 34	punct
2	34	34	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 shrieked	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 34	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 34	punct
5	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moujik	det
7	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shrieked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shrieked	conj
11	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 crossing	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 uttering	cc
14	uttering	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 crossing	conj
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 uttering	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shriek in a quote	past	34	the moujik	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moujik=Theme
2	begin in a quote	past	34 not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cross in a quote	gerund	34 not said here	word	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	utter speech: other in a quote	gerund	34 not said here	prayers	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic

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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