Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 213

They use their hands instead of shovels, and clean out the oven with their breasts.

Who acts: sloughs · What happens: use, clean out · To what, where: hands, oven

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sloughs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 shovels	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	shovels	shovel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clean	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clean	cc
10	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 clean	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oven	det
13	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clean	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 breasts	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 breasts	nmod:poss
16	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clean	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	sloughs = slough	sloughs's hands				instead shovels	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	clean out	infinitive		the oven				with sloughs's breasts	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent oven=Patient with breast=Instrument

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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