Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 40

Then the women lifted up the old crone, laid her in a trough, took hold of the cauldron, and poured the whole of the boiling water over her at once.

Who acts: women · What happens: lift up, lay, take, pour, boil, hold · To what, where: old crone, woman, trough, hold, whole, cauldron

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 (women), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lifted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 women	det
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crone	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crone	amod
8	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 trough	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trough	det
14	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
17	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cauldron	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cauldron	det
20	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hold	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poured	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 poured	cc
23	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whole	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poured	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
28	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 water	amod
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whole	obl
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poured	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 poured	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	the women	the old crone		then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crone=Theme
2	lay	past	the women not said here	woman	a trough			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in trough=Destination
3	take	past	the women not said here	hold of the cauldron				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	pour	past		the whole			over woman	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
5	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	hold			the cauldron				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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