Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 4

Well, they waited till the dead of night; then they killed a goat and flung it into the cellar, but they carried the Diachok to another place and there hid him in the ground.

Who acts: they · What happens: wait, kill, fling, carry, hide · To what, where: goat, cellar, Diachok, place, man, ground

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 (they), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	ADP	_	7 dead	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dead	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waited	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 killed	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	nsubj
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 goat	det
15	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flung	cc
17	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 killed	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flung	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 cellar	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cellar	det
21	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 carried	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carried	nsubj
25	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Diachok	det
27	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hid	cc
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 hid	expl
33	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 carried	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hid	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hid	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wait	past	they				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past	they	a goat		then	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
3	fling	past	they not said here	goat	the cellar		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cellar=Destination
4	carry	past	they	the Diachok	another place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent diachok=Theme to place=Destination
5	hide	past	they not said here	man	the ground; there		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in ground=Location

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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