Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 131

Meanwhile, Frost had numbed the girl's hands, so our damsels folded them under their dress, and then went on quarrelling as before.

Who acts: Frost, damsels · What happens: numb, fold, go · To what, where: hands, people, dress, quarrelling

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frost, damsels), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 numbed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 numbed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 numbed	aux
5	numbed	numb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hands	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 numbed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 folded	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 folded	advmod
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 damsels	nmod:poss
13	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 folded	nsubj
14	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 numbed	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 folded	obj
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 dress	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dress	nmod:poss
18	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 folded	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 went	advmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 folded	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 quarrelling	case
24	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 before	case
26	before	before	ADV	_	22 went	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 numbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	numb	past · perfect	Frost	the girl's hands			meanwhile property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer
2	fold	past	our damsels	people	people's dress			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	go	past	our damsels not said here		quarrelling	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on quarrelling=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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