Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 4

So he set to work at once, stripped the seigneur naked, laid hold of him by the legs with the tongs, popped him into the furnace, and began blowing the bellows.

Who acts: he · What happens: set, work, strip, pop, begin, blow · To what, where: seigneur, him, furnace, bellows

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 work	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stripped	punct
9	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seigneur	det
11	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stripped	obj
12	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seigneur	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hold	punct
14	laid	laid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hold	amod
15	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seigneur	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hold	nmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 legs	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 legs	det
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stripped	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 tongs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tongs	det
23	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stripped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 popped	punct
25	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stripped	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 popped	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 furnace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 furnace	det
29	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 popped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
33	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 began	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bellows	det
35	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 blowing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	he			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
3	strip	past		the seigneur and laid hold of him	by the legs; with the tongs	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seigneur=Patient
4	pop	past		him = he	into the furnace result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into furnace=Result
5	begin	past	he not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	blow	gerund	he not said here	the bellows		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient
7	hold			him = he		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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