Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 29

They take it for a monstrous worm, tie a cord to it, and drag it away to the bank of the river.

Who acts: harvesters · What happens: take, tie, drag away · To what, where: corn, cord, bank

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 (harvesters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 worm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 worm	det
6	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worm	amod
7	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tie	punct
9	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cord	det
11	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tie	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tie	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drag	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drag	cc
16	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drag	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 drag	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bank	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bank	det
21	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drag	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bank	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	harvesters = harvester	corn			for a monstrous worm	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for worm=Beneficiary
2	tie	infinitive	harvesters = harvester not said here	a cord	corn			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	drag away	infinitive	harvesters = harvester not said here	corn		the bank of the river	away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bank=Destination

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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