Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 129

So they gave him a handkerchief; you only had to wave it, and behind you lay a whole lake!

Who acts: apples, you · What happens: give, have, wave, lay · To what, where: handkerchief, straightway, whole lake

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 (apples, you), 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	_	3 gave	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handkerchief	det
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wave	mark
12	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wave	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lake	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lake	amod
21	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	apples = apple	a handkerchief	straightway	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handkerchief=Theme
2	have	past	you			tree rules
3	wave	to-infinitive	you not said here	handkerchief		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	lay	present	you	a whole lake		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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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