Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 141

He took to his work by himself, and was hammering away, when at that moment up drove the seigneur, and walked straight into the smithy.

Who acts: thing · What happens: take, hammer away, drive, walk, work · To what, where: seigneur, smithy

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 (thing), 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 work	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hammering	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hammering	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hammering	aux
11	hammering	hammer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 hammering	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drove	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 drove	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 moment	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 moment	compound:prt
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 seigneur	det
21	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walked	cc
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
25	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 smithy	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 smithy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 smithy	det
28	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	thing			to thing's work result; by thing	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result
2	hammer away	past · progressive	thing not said here			away property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	thing not said here	the seigneur	moment		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme seigneur=Trajectory
4	walk	past	thing not said here			into the smithy result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into smithy=Result
5	work		thing				nom work «act 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.

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