Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 102

When he came to the big stone, he pushed it aside, and knelt down to see what was under it.

Who acts: brother · What happens: come, push, kneel down, see, be · To what, where: big stone, plain

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pushed	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 stone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pushed	nsubj
10	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pushed	obj
12	aside	aside	ADV	_	10 pushed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knelt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knelt	cc
15	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pushed	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 knelt	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knelt	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 it	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 it	cop
21	under	under	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	brother		the big stone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location
2	push	past	brother	plain		aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	kneel down	past	brother not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	to-infinitive	brother not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past			plain		tree rules

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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