Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 50

The hero who is left alone prepares a meal, and then, "after washing his head, sits down by the window to comb his hair."

Who acts: hero · What happens: leave, prepare, wash, sit down, comb · To what, where: hero, meal, head, hair

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepares	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 left	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hero	acl:relcl
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp
7	prepares	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 meal	det
9	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepares	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sits	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sits	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sits	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 washing	mark
16	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sits	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 washing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 washing	punct
20	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 prepares	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sits	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 window	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sits	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 comb	mark
26	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sits	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comb	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prepares	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 prepares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		the hero		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	prepare	present	the hero	a meal			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
3	wash in a quote	gerund		rest's head			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	sit down in a quote	present	the hero not said here		then	by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
5	comb in a quote	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	rest's hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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