Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 21

And those swans and geese took hold of him and carried him back, flew up to the cottage, and dropped him in the upper room.

Who acts: swans · What happens: take, carry back, fly up, drop, hold · To what, where: hold, flock, cottage, upper room

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 (swans), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 swans	det
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 geese	cc
5	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swans	conj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carried	cc
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 carried	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 flew	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 cottage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cottage	det
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dropped	cc
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dropped	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
26	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 room	amod
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	that swans and geese	hold of flock		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	carry back	past	that swans and geese not said here	flock		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	fly up	past	that swans and geese not said here		the cottage	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination
4	drop	past	that swans and geese not said here	flock	the upper room	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in room=Destination
5	hold			flock		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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