Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 125

When he came out of the kabak drunk, and fell into the water, the devils immediately seized him and made him their hack, and now they use him for fetching wood and water."

Who acts: horse, devils, wood · What happens: come out, fall, seize, make, use, fetch · To what, where: kabak, water, horse, hack, wood

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, devils, wood), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seized	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 kabak	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kabak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kabak	det
7	kabak	kabak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kabak	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 devils	det
17	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seized	nsubj
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	19 seized	advmod
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seized	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seized	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hack	nmod:poss
25	hack	hack	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 use	cc
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 use	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	nsubj
30	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 seized	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	obj
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 fetching	mark
33	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 use	advcl
34	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fetching	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 water	cc
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wood	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	horse	the kabak				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient kabak=Result
2	fall	past	horse not said here				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
3	seize	past	the devils	horse			immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	make	past	the devils not said here	wood's hack	horse			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary hack=Product
5	use	present	wood	horse		now		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	fetch	gerund	wood not said here	wood and water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

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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