Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 5

After he had burnt him to a cinder, he collected his remains, flung them into the milk, and then waited to see how soon a youthful seigneur would jump out of it.

Who acts: he, youthful seigneur · What happens: burnt, collect, fling, wait, see, jump out · To what, where: him, remains, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

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, youthful seigneur), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 burnt	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burnt	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burnt	aux
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 collected	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burnt	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cinder	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cinder	det
8	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burnt	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 collected	nsubj
11	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 remains	nmod:poss
13	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 collected	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flung	punct
15	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 collected	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flung	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 milk	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 milk	det
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flung	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waited	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 waited	advmod
23	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 collected	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 waited	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 soon	advmod
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 jump	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 seigneur	det
29	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 seigneur	amod
30	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jump	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 jump	aux
32	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	35 it	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 jump	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · perfect	he	him = he			to a cinder	tree rules
2	collect	past	he	his remains				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Theme
3	fling	past	he not said here	remains	the milk			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into milk=Destination
4	wait	past	he not said here			then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	he not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	jump out	would	a youthful seigneur	milk			soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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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