Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 34

Presently the daughter came back, bringing a dozen other women with her, and they all set to work laying out the corpse.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: come back, bring, set, work, lay out · To what, where: dozen other women, corpse

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 (daughter), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bringing	punct
7	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dozen	det
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 women	nummod
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 women	amod
11	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bringing	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bringing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 set	advmod
18	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	xcomp
21	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 work	xcomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 laying	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 corpse	det
24	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laying	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the daughter			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	gerund	the daughter not said here		dozen other women	with woman	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
3	set	present	daughter				tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	daughter not said here				tree rules
5	lay out	gerund	daughter not said here	the corpse			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Result

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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