Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 58

So he took the girl into the forest, and left her in a kind of hut, telling her to prepare some soup while he was cutting wood. "

Who acts: husband · What happens: take, leave, tell, prepare, cut · To what, where: girl, forest, kind, soup, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kind	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kind	det
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hut	case
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
19	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 left	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 telling	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 prepare	mark
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 telling	xcomp
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 soup	det
24	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prepare	obj
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 cutting	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cutting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cutting	aux
28	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 prepare	advcl
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cutting	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	husband	the girl		the forest	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme into forest=Destination
2	leave	past	husband not said here	girl		a kind of hut	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in kind=Location
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	husband not said here		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	prepare not said to happen	to-infinitive	husband not said here	some soup			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient
5	cut	past · progressive	husband	wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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