Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 22

Early the next morning his mother set to work to bake pancakes, baked them, and all of a sudden fell to thinking about her boy. "

Who acts: mother, pancakes, all · What happens: set, work, bake, fall, think · To what, where: pancakes

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 (mother, pancakes, all), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl:unmarked
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 set	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bake	mark
11	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 work	advcl
12	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bake	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 baked	punct
14	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pancakes	acl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 baked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 fell	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sudden	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sudden	det
21	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 all	nmod
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	conj
23	to	to	SCONJ	_	24 thinking	mark
24	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fell	advcl
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 boy	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 boy	nmod:poss
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thinking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	flock's mother		morning	early property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	flock's mother not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bake	to-infinitive	flock's mother not said here	pancakes			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=Product
4	bake	participle	pancakes not said here	pancakes = pancake			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
5	fall	past	all				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	gerund	all not said here			about mother's boy	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about boy=Topic

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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