Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 136

But a certain old man took out the infant prince afield, and there his mother appeared, flung aside her feather-covering, and suckled the babe, exclaiming the while with tears--

Who acts: certain old man, mother · What happens: take out, appear, fling, suckle, exclaim · To what, where: infant prince afield, babe

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain old man, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 afield	det
9	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 afield	amod
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 afield	compound
11	afield	afield	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 appeared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 appeared	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 appeared	expl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appeared	nsubj
17	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flung	punct
19	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 appeared	advcl
20	aside	aside	ADP	_	24 covering	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 covering	nmod:poss
22	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 covering	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 feather	punct
24	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 suckled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 suckled	cc
27	suckled	suckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 babe	det
29	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 suckled	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exclaiming	punct
31	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 suckled	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 while	det
33	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 exclaiming	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 tears	case
35	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 exclaiming	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	a certain old man	the infant prince afield				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afield=Theme
2	appear	past	man's mother		there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fling	participle	man's mother not said here				aside mother's feather covering	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	suckle	past	a certain old man not said here	the babe				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Recipient
5	exclaim speech: express	gerund	a certain old man not said here			while	with tears	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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