Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 56

On the fourth day Ivan went out to the same spot, and when the mace came tumbling down, he put his knee in the way, and the mace broke over it into three pieces.

Who acts: Ivan, mace · What happens: go out, come, tumble down, put, break · To what, where: knee, way

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, mace), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 spot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spot	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spot	amod
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mace	det
16	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 put	advcl
18	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 came	xcomp
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 tumbling	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 knee	nmod:poss
24	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 broke	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 broke	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mace	det
31	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 broke	nsubj
32	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 broke	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 pieces	case
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 pieces	nummod
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 broke	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Ivan			day	to the same spot; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the mace					tree rules
3	tumble down	gerund	the mace not said here				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	put	past	IVAN	IVAN's knee	the way			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knee=Theme in way=Destination
5	break	past	the mace		way		into three pieces	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location

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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