Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 30

There they fasten one of their number to a log and set him afloat, giving him the end of the cord, in order that he may drag the "worm" after him into the water.

Who acts: harvesters, log · What happens: fasten, set, give, drag · To what, where: one number, order, log, end, worm, water

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, log), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 fasten	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fasten	nsubj
3	fasten	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 number	nummod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 number	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 number	nmod:poss
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fasten	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 log	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 log	det
10	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fasten	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fasten	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	obj
14	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 set	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 giving	punct
16	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 set	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 giving	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 cord	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cord	det
22	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 order	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 order	case
25	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fasten	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 drag	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drag	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 drag	aux
29	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 order	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 worm	det
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 worm	punct
32	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drag	obj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 worm	punct
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drag	obl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 water	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drag	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	present	harvesters = harvester	harvesters's one number		order; there		to a log	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent number=Patient to log=Co-Patient
2	set	infinitive	harvesters = harvester not said here	log				afloat property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
3	give	gerund	harvesters = harvester not said here	the end of the cord	log				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient end=Theme
4	drag	may	log	the worm		the water	after worm		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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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