Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 111

And when they came to where the rope was, the Prince took hold of it and made the maidens fast to it.

Who acts: heads, rope, Prince · What happens: come, be, take, make, hold · To what, where: hold, maidens

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, rope, Prince), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 where	case
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 where	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 where	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maidens	det
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obj
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 made	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	heads = head				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the rope			where property	tree rules
3	take	past	the Prince	hold of hold			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	make	past	the Prince not said here	the maidens	hold	fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset maiden=Product
5	hold			hold			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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