Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 18

There was the merchant alive and well, holding the cat in his arms, and stroking its fur; the cat was purring away, singing its song, and on the floor lay a perfect heap of dead rats and mice!

Who acts: merchant, cat · What happens: be, hold, stroke, purr away, sing, lie · To what, where: cat, arms, fur, song, perfect heap, floor

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 (merchant, cat), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merchant	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 well	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 alive	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 holding	punct
9	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 arms	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arms	nmod:poss
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holding	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stroking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stroking	cc
17	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fur	nmod:poss
19	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stroking	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 purring	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 purring	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 purring	aux
24	purring	purr	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stroking	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 purring	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 singing	punct
27	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 purring	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 song	nmod:poss
29	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 singing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lay	cc
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 floor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 floor	det
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obl
35	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 purring	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 heap	det
37	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 heap	amod
38	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 rats	case
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rats	amod
41	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 heap	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 mice	cc
43	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rats	conj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the merchant		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	gerund	the merchant not said here	the cat	merchant's arms		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme in arm=Location
3	stroke	gerund	the merchant not said here	cat's fur			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Experiencer
4	purr away	past · progressive	the cat			away property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	gerund	the cat not said here	cat's song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	lie	past	the cat not said here	a perfect heap of dead rats and mice	the floor		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=Theme
7	sing		cat				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/18/