Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 11

They all had to pass along a bridge over a deep river; the moujik managed to give the Zluidni a shove, and over they went, mill-stones and all, and sank straight to the bottom.

Who acts: stones, moujik · What happens: have, pass, manage, give, go, sink · To what, where: deep river, shove, Zluidni, mill stones

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 (stones, moujik), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 bridge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 river	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 river	det
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 river	amod
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 managed	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moujik	det
15	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 managed	nsubj
16	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 managed	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Zluidni	det
20	Zluidni	Zluidni	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shove	det
22	shove	shove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
25	over	over	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stones	punct
29	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stones	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 mill	punct
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 went	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 all	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 stones	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sank	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sank	cc
36	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
37	straight	straight	ADV	_	40 bottom	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 bottom	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bottom	det
40	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sank	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	stones = stone					tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	stones = stone not said here			a deep river	along a bridge	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme along bridge=Initial_Location over river=Destination
3	manage	past	the moujik					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	give	to-infinitive	the moujik not said here	a shove	the Zluidni			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent zluidni=Recipient shove=Theme
5	go	past	stones = stone	mill stones				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sink	past					to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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