Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 20

No sooner had Osip shown his head than the old woman lifted her axe and chopped it off.

Who acts: Osip, old woman · What happens: show, lift, chop off · To what, where: head, axe

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Osip, old woman), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 shown	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shown	aux
4	Osip	Osip	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shown	nsubj
5	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shown	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 lifted	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	nsubj
12	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shown	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 axe	nmod:poss
14	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 chopped	cc
16	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lifted	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 chopped	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	16 chopped	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past · perfect	Osip	husband's head	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Recipient
2	lift	past	the old woman	Osip's axe		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
3	chop off	past	the old woman not said here	axe		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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