Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 22

The Tartar took off his clothes and went into the water; before he had gone any distance the barrel came floating up to him of its own accord.

Who acts: Tartar, barrel · What happens: take off, go, come, float up · To what, where: clothes, water, distance, Tartar

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 (Tartar, barrel), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tartar	det
2	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 clothes	nmod:poss
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 gone	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 came	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 distance	det
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 barrel	det
20	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 came	xcomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 floating	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 floating	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 accord	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 accord	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 accord	amod
29	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 floating	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take off	past	the Tartar	Tartar's clothes				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	go	past	the Tartar not said here			the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
3	go	past · perfect	Tartar	any distance				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
4	come	past	the barrel					tree rules
5	float up	gerund	the barrel not said here		Tartar		of barrel's own accord	vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Destination of accord=Initial_Location

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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