Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 119

He took his brush and cast it down on the open plain.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: take, cast down · To what, where: brush, request, open plain

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brush	nmod:poss
4	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cast	cc
6	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cast	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 cast	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plain	det
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plain	amod
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ivan	Ivan's brush					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
2	cast down	infinitive	Ivan not said here	request		the open plain			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on plain=Destination

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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