Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 31

On Christmas Eve it is customary for the oldest man in each family to take a spoonful of kissel, a sort of pudding, and then, having put his head through the window, to cry:

Who acts: it · What happens: be, take, put, cry, sort · To what, where: customary, Christmas, spoonful, head, window, pudding

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 Christmas	case
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 customary	obl
3	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Christmas	flat
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 customary	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 customary	cop
6	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 customary	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 customary	csubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 spoonful	det
17	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 kissel	case
19	kissel	kissel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spoonful	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sort	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spoonful	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 pudding	case
24	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sort	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 put	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
29	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 put	aux
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 customary	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 window	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 window	det
35	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cry	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 cry	mark
38	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 put	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 customary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	customary	Christmas		for the oldest man in each family	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		a spoonful of kissel				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=Theme
3	put	gerund · perfect		man's head	the window	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through window=Destination
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sort			pudding				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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