Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 83

Katoma fathomed the subtle device of the Princess, but, without stopping long to talk, he went into the stable and told the grooms to bring forth the heroic steed.

Who acts: Katoma · What happens: fathom, stop, talk, go, tell, bring · To what, where: subtle device, stable, grooms, heroic steed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katoma), 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	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fathomed	nsubj
2	fathomed	fathom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 device	det
4	subtle	subtle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 device	amod
5	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fathomed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 device	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 but	punct
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 stopping	mark
13	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 went	advcl
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 stopping	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 talk	mark
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stopping	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopping	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fathomed	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 stable	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stable	det
22	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grooms	det
26	grooms	groom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 told	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 bring	mark
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 steed	det
31	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 steed	amod
32	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fathomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fathom	past	Katoma	the subtle device of the Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer device=Stimulus
2	stop	gerund	Katoma not said here				long property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	talk	to-infinitive	Katoma not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	Katoma			the stable		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert	past	Katoma not said here		the grooms			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent groom=Recipient clause=Topic
6	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Katoma not said here	the heroic steed			forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent steed=Theme

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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