Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 189

He took as much of it as the skirts of his caftan would hold, and toiled home with it.

Who acts: TREE, skirts · What happens: take, hold, toil · To what, where: much

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 (TREE, skirts), 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	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 much	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 hold	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skirts	det
9	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hold	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 caftan	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 caftan	nmod:poss
12	caftan	caftan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skirts	nmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	aux
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 toiled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 toiled	cc
17	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 toiled	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 toiled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	TREE	much of gold		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
2	hold	would	the skirts of TREE's caftan			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	toil	past	TREE not said here		with gold; home property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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