Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 94

And when he is seated on your back, do you sink into the earth right up to your fetlocks, and then move under him with a heavy step, just as if an immeasurable weight had been laid upon your back."

Who acts: you · What happens: seat, sink, move, lay · To what, where: Prince, back, earth, immeasurable weight

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 (you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 sink	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 seated	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seated	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	aux:pass
5	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sink	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seated	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sink	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sink	nsubj
12	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sink	obl
16	right	right	ADV	_	20 fetlocks	advmod
17	up	up	ADP	_	20 fetlocks	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 fetlocks	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fetlocks	nmod:poss
20	fetlocks	fetlock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sink	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 move	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 move	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 move	advmod
24	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sink	conj
25	under	under	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 move	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 step	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 step	det
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 step	amod
30	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 move	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 laid	punct
32	just	just	ADV	_	40 laid	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 laid	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 laid	mark
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 weight	det
36	immeasurable	immeasurable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 weight	amod
37	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 laid	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 laid	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 laid	aux:pass
40	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 move	conj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 back	case
42	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 back	nmod:poss
43	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 laid	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sink	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	present · passive		Prince	your back			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	sink	present · do-support	you		the earth		up your fetlocks	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	move	infinitive	you not said here			then	under Prince; with a heavy step	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under he=Trajectory
4	lay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a immeasurable weight	your back			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon back=Destination

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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