Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 127

Then he came back to the mountain and tossed the ring from one hand to the other.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: come back, toss · To what, where: mountain, ring, one hand

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tossed	cc
9	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ring	det
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tossed	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hand	nummod
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tossed	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tossed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Ivan			the mountain	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
2	toss	past	Ivan not said here	the ring		one hand		to the other	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from hand=Initial_Location to other=Destination

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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