Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 89

And then he would lay the fire in the furnace and begin his work.

Who acts: Thenceforward · What happens: lay, begin, work · To what, where: fire, furnace, work

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 (Thenceforward), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lay	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	aux
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 furnace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 furnace	det
10	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begin	cc
12	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lay	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 work	nmod:poss
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begin	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lay	would	Thenceforward	the fire	the furnace	then	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme in furnace=Destination
2	begin	infinitive	Thenceforward not said here	Thenceforward's work			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	work		Thenceforward				nom work «act intransitive»: 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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