Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 56

A spider has come, and, with waving of arms and weaving of nets, has set his snares in all the ways to which the flies and gnats resort.

Who acts: spider, flies, Ho · What happens: come, weave, set, resort, wave, snare · To what, where: waving, ways, arms

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 (spider, flies, Ho), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waving	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 waving	case
9	waving	waving	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 arms	case
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waving	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 weaving	cc
13	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 arms	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 nets	case
15	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 weaving	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waving	punct
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 set	aux
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 snares	nmod:poss
20	snares	snare	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 set	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 ways	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 ways	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ways	det
24	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 set	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 resort	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flies	det
28	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 resort	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gnats	cc
30	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flies	conj
31	resort	resort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ways	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	a spider				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weave	gerund				of nets	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of net=Trajectory
3	set	present · perfect · passive		waving of arms	all ways		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme snare=Destination
4	resort	present	the flies and gnats			to all ways	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to which=Result
5	wave			arms			nom waving «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	snare		Ho				nom snare «cognition transitive»: 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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