Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 116

But their brother was no fool; he guessed what they were at, so he fastened the rope to a stone, and then gave it a pull.

Who acts: brother, rope · What happens: be, guess, fasten, give · To what, where: fool, rope, stone

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 (brother, rope), 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	_	9 guessed	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guessed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brother	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 guessed	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guessed	nsubj
9	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 guessed	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 at	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 at	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	10 what	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fastened	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 fastened	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fastened	nsubj
17	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 guessed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rope	det
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fastened	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 stone	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stone	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fastened	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 gave	advmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 guessed	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pull	det
29	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	beauties's brother and no fool not said here	no fool			tree rules
2	guess	past	beauties's brother and no fool				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	fasten	past	rope	the rope		to a stone	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to stone=Co-Patient
4	give	past	beauties's brother and no fool not said here	stone	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient pull=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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