Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 52

She enters the hut and, after some short parley, seizes her pestle, and begins beating the hero with it until he falls prostrate.

Who acts: party, rest · What happens: enter, seize, begin, beat, fall · To what, where: hut, pestle, hero

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 (party, rest), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 enters	nsubj
2	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hut	det
4	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 enters	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seizes	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 and	punct
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 parley	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 parley	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parley	amod
10	parley	parley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seizes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 parley	punct
12	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 enters	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pestle	nmod:poss
14	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seizes	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begins	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begins	cc
17	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 enters	conj
18	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 begins	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hero	det
20	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beating	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beating	obl
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 falls	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 falls	nsubj
25	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 beating	advcl
26	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 falls	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 enters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	party	the hut			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
2	seize	present	party not said here	party's pestle	after some short parley		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme
3	begin	present	party not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	beat	gerund	party not said here	the hero		with pestle	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hero=Patient with it=Instrument
5	fall	present	rest			prostrate property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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