Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 70

As is usual in the stories of this class, his comrades, after hoisting the maidens aloft, cut the cord and let him fall back into the abyss.

Who acts: you, Ivan · What happens: be, hoist, cut, let, fall back · To what, where: stories, maidens, cord, Ivan, abyss

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 (you, 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 usual	case
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 usual	cop
3	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cut	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 usual	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 class	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 class	det
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stories	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comrades	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 comrades	nmod:poss
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stories	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hoisting	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 hoisting	mark
15	hoisting	hoist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 comrades	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maidens	det
17	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hoisting	obj
18	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hoisting	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
20	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cord	det
22	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 cut	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 fall	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 abyss	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 abyss	det
30	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fall	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you not said here		the stories of this class and Ivan's comrades	usual property	tree rules
2	hoist	gerund	you not said here	the maidens		aloft property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
3	cut	imperative	you not said here	the cord			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cord=Product
4	let	infinitive	you not said here	Ivan			tree rules
5	fall back	infinitive	Ivan not said here			into the abyss result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into abyss=Result

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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