Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 28

Then he comes to a place where sickles are unknown, and harvesters are in the habit of biting off the ears of corn, so he makes a sickle for them, thrusts it into a sheaf and leaves it there.

Who acts: hero, sickles, harvesters, habit · What happens: come, be, bite off, make, thrust, leave · To what, where: place, habit, ears, sickle, corn, sheaf

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 (hero, sickles, harvesters, habit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 comes	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 unknown	advmod
8	sickles	sickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 unknown	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unknown	cop
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 habit	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 habit	cc
13	harvesters	harvester	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 habit	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 habit	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 habit	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 habit	det
17	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 biting	mark
19	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 habit	acl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 biting	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ears	det
22	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 biting	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 corn	case
24	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ears	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 makes	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	nsubj
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sickle	det
30	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makes	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thrusts	punct
34	thrusts	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thrusts	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 sheaf	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sheaf	det
38	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thrusts	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 leaves	cc
40	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 thrusts	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 leaves	obj
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 leaves	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	hero		a place	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	is	present	sickles				unknown property	tree rules
3	is	present	harvesters		the habit			tree rules
4	bite off	gerund	the habit not said here	the ears of corn				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
5	make	present	hero	a sickle			for sickles = sickle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sickle=Material for they=Beneficiary
6	thrust	present	hero not said here	corn	a sheaf			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	leave	present	hero not said here	corn	there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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