Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 70

When they had dined, 'Maiden, Maiden!' said the Head, 'take me off the bench!'

Who acts: Maiden · What happens: dine, say, take · To what, where: me, bench · 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 (Maiden), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dined	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dined	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dined	aux
4	dined	dine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dined	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Maiden	punct
7	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Maiden	punct
9	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Maiden	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Maiden	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Maiden	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Head	det
14	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 bench	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bench	det
21	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dine	past · perfect	Maiden			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Maiden and Maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	infinitive		me	the bench	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme off bench=Initial_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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