Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 122

They were received by his brothers, who then set to work and cut away the ladder, so that he himself would not be able to get down.

Who acts: brothers, Ivan · What happens: receive, set, work, cut away, not be, get down · To what, where: shoes, ladder

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	aux:pass
3	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 brothers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 received	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 set	nsubj
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 set	advmod
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brothers	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 work	mark
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 set	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cut	cc
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 cut	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ladder	det
17	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 able	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 able	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 able	nsubj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 he	nmod:unmarked
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 able	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 able	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	cop
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cut	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 get	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · passive	Ivan's brothers	shoes = shoe			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	set	past	Ivan's brothers		then		tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	Ivan's brothers not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut away	infinitive	Ivan's brothers not said here	the ladder		away property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ladder=Product
5	not is	would	Ivan			able property	tree rules
6	get down	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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