Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 129

One day, after toiling hard afield, they sat down under a bush to eat their last morsel of bread.

Who acts: One day, life · What happens: toil, sit down, eat · To what, where: afield, bush, last morsel

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, life), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 toiling	mark
5	toiling	toil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 day	acl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 afield	advmod
7	afield	afield	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toiling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 bush	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bush	det
14	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sat	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 morsel	nmod:poss
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morsel	amod
19	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bread	case
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 morsel	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	toil	gerund	One day not said here	afield			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location afield=Theme
2	sit down	past	life		a bush	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location
3	eat	to-infinitive	life not said here	life's last morsel of bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=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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