Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 58

Early in the morning, between daybreak and sunrise, the old man harnessed the mare to the sledge, and led it up to the steps.

Who acts: old man · What happens: harness, lead up · To what, where: mare, sledge

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 (old man), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 harnessed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 daybreak	punct
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 daybreak	case
7	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sunrise	cc
9	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daybreak	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 harnessed	nsubj
14	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mare	det
16	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 harnessed	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sledge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sledge	det
19	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 harnessed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 led	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 led	cc
22	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 harnessed	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 led	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 led	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 steps	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 steps	det
27	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 led	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 harnessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harness	past	the old man	the mare			morning	to the sledge	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mare=Patient to sledge=Co-Patient
2	lead up	past	the old man not said here	sledge				to the steps	tree rules

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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