Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 147

If they enter the dark forest, Woe follows them there; if they rush to the pot-house, there they find Woe sitting; when they seek refuge in the grave, Woe stands over it with a shovel and rejoices.

Who acts: vain, Woe · What happens: enter, follow, rush, find, sit, seek · To what, where: dark forest, vain, Woe, refuge, grave

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 (vain, Woe), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 enter	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enter	nsubj
3	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 follows	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forest	amod
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enter	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 enter	punct
8	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follows	nsubj
9	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 follows	obj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 follows	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 rush	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rush	nsubj
15	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 find	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 pot	punct
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rush	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rush	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 find	expl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 follows	parataxis
25	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
26	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 Woe	acl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 seek	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 seek	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seek	nsubj
30	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 find	conj
31	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seek	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 grave	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grave	det
34	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 refuge	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stands	punct
36	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 stands	nsubj
37	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 follows	conj
38	over	over	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stands	obl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 shovel	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 shovel	det
42	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stands	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rejoices	cc
44	rejoices	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 stands	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 follows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter a condition, not said to happen	present	vain	the dark forest			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination
2	follow	present	Woe	vain	there		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	rush a condition, not said to happen	present	vain			to the pot house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
4	find	present	vain	Woe	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Topic
5	sit	gerund	Woe not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seek	present	vain	refuge	the grave		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme in grave=Location
7	stand	present	Woe		grave	with a shovel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location
8	rejoice	present	Woe not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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