Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 119

Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box.

Who acts: brother · What happens: go, cut, take, drive · To what, where: two oaken wedges, new wheel, wedge, one end

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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cut	advcl
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 yard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yard	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yard	amod
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 wedges	nummod
10	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wedges	amod
11	wedges	wedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wheel	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wheel	amod
16	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drove	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drove	cc
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wedge	det
21	wedge	wedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obj
22	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	19 drove	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 end	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 end	nummod
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 box	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 box	nmod:poss
28	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 box	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 axle	punct
30	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	brother not said here			into the large yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location
2	cut	past	brother	two oaken wedges			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedge=Product
3	take	past	brother not said here	a new wheel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme
4	drive	past	brother not said here	a wedge	into one end of end's axle box	firmly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wedge=Theme into end=Trajectory

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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