Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 103

Before he had managed to get his head down low enough, Woe had already leapt out and seated itself on his shoulders.

Who acts: brother, Woe · What happens: manage, get down, leapt out, seat · To what, where: head, shoulders

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, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 managed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 managed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	aux
4	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 managed	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
10	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 get	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 low	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leapt	punct
13	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 leapt	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 leapt	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 leapt	advmod
16	leapt	leapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 managed	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 leapt	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seated	cc
19	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	conj
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 seated	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 shoulders	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shoulders	nmod:poss
23	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seated	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past · perfect	brother				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get down	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother's head		down, low property	tree rules
3	leapt out	past · perfect	Woe				tree rules
4	seat	past	brother not said here	head	brother's shoulders		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Value

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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