Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 48

And all the way he went along, he cut marks on the trees.

Who acts: Russia · What happens: go along, cut · To what, where: way, trees

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 (Russia), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 way	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	acl:relcl
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 trees	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trees	det
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go along	past	Russia	all way not said here				along property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	cut	past	Russia	all way		the trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Product

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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