Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 104

So saying he laid hold of a pot full of boiling water and began pouring its scalding contents over Marko the Rich.

Who acts: mortal · What happens: say, lay, hold, boil, begin, pour · To what, where: scalding contents, Marko · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laid	nsubj
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saying	ccomp
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laid	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 pot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pot	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obl
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pot	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
15	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 began	xcomp
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 contents	nmod:poss
17	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 contents	compound
18	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 pouring	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 Marko	case
20	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pouring	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Rich	det
22	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pouring	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lay	past	mortal				tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	mortal not said here			of a pot	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	boil	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	begin	past	mortal not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	pour	gerund	mortal not said here	water's scalding contents	Marko		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent contents=Theme rich=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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