Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 51

In the "Fox-wailer,"[29] for example--one of the variants of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" story--an old man puts his wife in a bag and attempts to carry her up the beanstalk to heaven.

Who acts: old man, known Jack story · What happens: know, put, carry up, vary · To what, where: wife, bag

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 (old man, known Jack story), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 wailer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wailer	det
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wailer	punct
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wailer	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Fox	punct
6	wailer	wailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wailer	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wailer	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 29	punct
10	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 wailer	appos
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 29	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 example	case
13	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 29	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 29	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 variants	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 variants	det
18	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	30 story	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 story	det
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 known	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 well	punct
23	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 story	amod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Jack	punct
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 story	compound
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Beanstalk	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Beanstalk	det
28	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Jack	conj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Jack	punct
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 variants	nmod
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 puts	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 puts	nsubj
35	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 one	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 puts	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 bag	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bag	det
40	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 puts	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 attempts	cc
42	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 bag	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 carry	mark
44	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 puts	advcl
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 carry	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	44 carry	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 beanstalk	det
48	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 carry	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 heaven	case
50	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 carry	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 29	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	participle					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	put	present	a old man	man's wife		a bag and attempts		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme in bag=Destination
3	carry up	to-infinitive	a old man not said here		wife		to heaven	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary beanstalk=Value
4	vary		the known Jack story					nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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