Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 8

Straightway they laid hands on the Simpleton, crying, "Take us there and show him to us."

Who acts: Straightway · What happens: lay, cry, take, show · To what, where: hands, Simpleton, us, Straightway · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Straightway), 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	Straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Simpleton	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Simpleton	det
7	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crying	punct
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laid	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Take	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Take	punct
12	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Take	obj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Take	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 show	cc
16	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Take	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 show	iobj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 show	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Straightway	hands		the Simpleton		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	Straightway not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take in a quote	infinitive			us	there		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination
4	show in a quote	infinitive			Straightway		to us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to we=Recipient

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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