Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 93

But he had forgotten to take away his gloves, so he went back to fetch them, telling his brothers to wait for him meanwhile.

Who acts: IVAN · What happens: forget, not take away, go back, fetch, tell, wait · To what, where: gloves, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 forgotten	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgotten	xcomp
7	away	away	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gloves	nmod:poss
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fetch	mark
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
19	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brothers	nmod:poss
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 telling	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wait	mark
23	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 telling	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wait	obl
26	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	23 wait	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	IVAN				tree rules
2	not take away	to-infinitive	IVAN not said here	IVAN's gloves			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme
3	go back	past	IVAN				tree rules
4	fetch	to-infinitive	IVAN not said here	gloves = glove			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	IVAN not said here		IVAN's brothers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
6	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	IVAN not said here			for IVAN; meanwhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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