Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 10

So he laid the mill-stones on their backs, and made them go on in front of him.

Who acts: Ivan, stones · What happens: lay, make, go · To what, where: mill stones, backs, stones, front

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, stones), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stones	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 mill	punct
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 backs	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 backs	nmod:poss
10	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 front	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 front	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lay	past	Ivan	the mill stones	stones's backs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on back=Destination
2	make	past	Ivan not said here	stones = stone		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	stones = stone not said here		front of Ivan	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on front=Location

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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