Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 144

"So saying the man laid hold of her, and took her down from his shoulders--for she was sitting on them.

Who acts: man, mother · What happens: say, lay, take down, sit, hold · To what, where: hold, mother, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	3 saying	advmod
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 laid	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 shoulders	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulders	nmod:poss
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 sitting	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sitting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 took	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sitting	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	the man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lay in a quote	past	the man	hold of mother			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
3	take down in a quote	past	the man not said here	mother	man's shoulders		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	sit in a quote	past · progressive	mother			on shoulders = shoulder	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location
5	hold in a quote			mother			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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