Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 142

He took off his copper cross, traced a circle three times about the horse, and hung the cross round its neck.

Who acts: Petrusha · What happens: take off, trace, hang · To what, where: copper cross, circle, cross

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 (Petrusha), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	off	off	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cross	nmod:poss
5	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	compound
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 traced	punct
8	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 circle	det
10	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traced	obj
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 traced	obl:unmarked
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traced	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hung	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hung	cc
18	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cross	det
20	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hung	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 neck	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hung	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	Petrusha	Petrusha's copper cross			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
2	trace	past	Petrusha not said here	a circle	time	about the horse	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme
3	hang	past	Petrusha not said here	the cross		round cross's neck	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=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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