Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 97

She walked and walked, stumbled over a stone, and began swearing at it, saying, "What devil shoved you under my feet?"

Who acts: woman, devil · What happens: walk, stumble, begin, swear, say, shove · To what, where: stone, front, you, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, devil), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stumbled	punct
6	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 walked	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stumbled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
13	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 began	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swearing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 What	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 What	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 saying	obl
21	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shoved	nsubj
22	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 What	acl:relcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 shoved	obj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shoved	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	walk	past	woman			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	woman not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stumble	participle	woman not said here		a stone	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory
4	begin	past	woman not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	swear	gerund	woman not said here		front	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: ask	gerund	woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	shove in a quote	past	devil	you	my feet	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme under foot=Destination

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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