Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 38

Then she went up to the two men, took one of them--the Tailor--cut his throat, trussed him, and put him in the oven.

Who acts: woman · What happens: go up, take, cut, truss, put · To what, where: one, throat, tailor, oven

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 (woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 men	nummod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 Tailor	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tailor	det
16	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 cut	punct
18	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 throat	nmod:poss
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trussed	punct
22	trussed	truss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cut	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trussed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cut	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 oven	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 oven	det
30	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	woman			then	to the two men	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	take	past	woman not said here	one of visitors			the Tailor obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	cut	past		tailor's throat				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product
4	truss	participle		tailor				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	put	infinitive		tailor	the oven			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in oven=Destination

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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