Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 49

Into this his wife laid one of the logs he had cut, and began swinging it, crooning the while a rune beginning

Who acts: story · What happens: lay, cut, begin, swing, croon · To what, where: one, logs, cradle, the

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 (story), 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	Into	into	ADP	_	4 wife	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wife	det
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	obl
5	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 laid	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 logs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 logs	det
9	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cut	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 logs	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laid	conj
16	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 began	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swinging	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crooning	punct
19	crooning	croon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crooning	obj
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 beginning	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 beginning	det
23	rune	rune	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beginning	compound
24	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crooning	advcl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past		one of the logs	into story's wife	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result
2	cut	past · perfect	story	the logs not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Product
3	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	swing	gerund		cradle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	croon speech: other	gerund		the		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent the=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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