Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 111

So his mother put a white shirt on him, tied a red girdle round him, and let him go.

Who acts: mother, father · What happens: put, tie, let, go · To what, where: white shirt, red girdle, father

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shirt	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shirt	amod
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tied	punct
11	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 girdle	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girdle	amod
14	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obj
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tied	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	father's mother	a white shirt	on father	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme on he=Destination
2	tie	past	father's mother not said here	a red girdle	round father	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient
3	let	infinitive	father's mother not said here	father		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	father not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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