Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 129

After that he took a pair of tongs, caught hold of the lady by the feet, flung her into the furnace, and burnt her up; nothing was left of her but her bare bones.

Who acts: money, feet · What happens: take, catch, fling, burnt up, leave, hold · To what, where: pair, woman, furnace, nothing, lady

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, feet), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 took	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pair	det
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tongs	case
8	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pair	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
10	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hold	amod
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tongs	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lady	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 feet	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feet	det
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flung	punct
19	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 furnace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 furnace	det
23	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 burnt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burnt	cc
26	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 burnt	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 burnt	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 left	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 left	obj
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 bones	cc
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bones	nmod:poss
37	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bones	amod
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 left	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	money	a pair of tongs		after that	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	catch	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fling	past	money not said here	woman	the furnace		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into furnace=Destination
4	burnt up	past	money not said here	woman			tree rules
5	leave	past · passive		nothing			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme her=Attribute
6	hold		the feet	the lady			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient by=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.

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