Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 142

She took a knife, and was beginning to cut the thread at the seam, when forth flowed blood, and the pope began to howl:

Who acts: mother, pope · What happens: take, begin, cut, flow, howl · To what, where: knife, thread, seam, blood

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 (mother, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beginning	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beginning	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beginning	aux
8	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cut	mark
10	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beginning	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thread	det
12	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 seam	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seam	det
15	seam	seam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flowed	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 flowed	advmod
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	19 flowed	advmod
19	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flowed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pope	det
24	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 howl	mark
27	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	mother	a knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	begin	past · progressive	mother not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cut	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the thread	the seam		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thread=Product
4	flow	participle	mother not said here	blood		forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme
5	begin	past	the pope				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	howl	to-infinitive	the pope not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «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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