Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 50

The next day he went out into the fields to the spot from which he had flung the mace on high, and stood there with his head thrown back.

Who acts: IVAN · What happens: go out, fling, stand, throw back · To what, where: fields, mace, spot, head

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IVAN), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 spot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spot	det
12	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 flung	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flung	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flung	aux
17	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 spot	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mace	det
19	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flung	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 high	case
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stood	cc
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stood	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
29	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 head	acl
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 thrown	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	IVAN		the fields	day	to the spot; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fling	past · perfect	IVAN	the mace	the spot		on high	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mace=Theme on high=Destination
3	stand	past	IVAN not said here		there		with IVAN's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	throw back	participle		IVAN's head not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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