Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 88

When he had used up one chunk, he betook himself to another; when two were used up, he took to a third; when three were used up, the fourth came into play.

Who acts: Katoma, fourth · What happens: use up, betake, take, come · To what, where: one chunk, Katoma, two, three, play

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, fourth), 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	SCONJ	_	4 used	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 betook	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 used	compound:prt
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chunk	nummod
7	chunk	chunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 betook	nsubj
10	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 betook	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 betook	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 used	mark
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 used	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 used	aux:pass
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 betook	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 used	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 used	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 third	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 third	det
25	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 used	punct
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 used	mark
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 used	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 used	aux:pass
30	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 betook	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 used	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fourth	det
34	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 used	parataxis
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 play	case
37	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use up	past · perfect	Katoma	one chunk			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	betake	past	Katoma	Katoma		to another	tree rules
3	use up	past · passive		two			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	take	past	Katoma			to a third result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to third=Result
5	use up	past · passive		three			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	come	past	the fourth		play		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into play=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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