Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 124

And the Cat sat down to the loom, and worked away; muddled everything about, if it didn't do much weaving.

Who acts: Cat, loom · What happens: sit down, work away, muddle, not do · To what, where: everything, much weaving

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, loom), 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	_	4 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 loom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loom	det
8	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 worked	cc
11	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 worked	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 muddled	punct
14	muddled	muddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 worked	conj
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 muddled	obj
16	about	about	ADV	_	14 muddled	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 do	advmod
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 muddled	conj
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weaving	amod
24	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Cat		to the loom	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work away	past	the Cat not said here		away property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	muddle	participle	the Cat not said here	everything	about property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
4	not do a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	loom	much weaving		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weaving=Eventuality

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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