Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 25

The sportsman looked, and saw lying in the woodland path before him a log, and on the log there sat a moujik plaiting a bast shoe.

Who acts: sportsman, log · What happens: look, see, lie, sit, plait · To what, where: log, woodland path, moujik, bast shoe

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 (sportsman, log), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sportsman	det
2	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saw	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 path	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
10	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 path	compound
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lying	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 log	det
15	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 log	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 log	det
20	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	nsubj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 log	advmod
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 moujik	det
24	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obj
25	plaiting	plait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shoe	det
27	bast	bast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shoe	compound
28	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plaiting	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look	past	the sportsman				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	the sportsman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	the sportsman not said here	a log	the woodland path	before sportsman	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location log=Theme
4	sit	past	the log	a moujik			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moujik=Theme
5	plait	gerund	the log not said here	a bast shoe			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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