Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 163

The poor man betook himself to work, swept out the yard, cleaned the horses, fetched water, chopped firewood.

Who acts: poor man · What happens: betake, work, sweep out, clean, fetch, chop · To what, where: man, yard, horses

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 (poor man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 betook	nsubj
4	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 betook	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 betook	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swept	punct
9	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 betook	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 swept	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 yard	det
12	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swept	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cleaned	punct
14	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 betook	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horses	det
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cleaned	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 water	punct
18	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horses	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 firewood	punct
21	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 firewood	amod
22	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horses	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	betake	past	the poor man	man	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the poor man not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sweep out	participle	the poor man not said here	the yard	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
4	clean	past		the horses and fetched water and chopped firewood	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
5	fetch	participle			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	chop	participle			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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