Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 13

So he took the cripple and carried him home, and Katoma sat on his back, kept a look out all round, and cried out from time to time: "Right!

Who acts: man, Katoma · What happens: take, carry, sit, keep out, cry out · To what, where: cripple, man, back, look

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	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 cripple	det
5	cripple	cripple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carried	cc
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 carried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
12	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 back	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 look	det
20	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	18 kept	compound:prt
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 round	advmod
23	round	round	ADV	_	18 kept	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cried	cc
26	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 cried	compound:prt
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 time	case
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cried	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 time	case
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cried	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Right	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Right	punct
34	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	the cripple				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cripple=Theme
2	carry	past	man not said here	man			home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sit	past	Katoma		man's back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
4	keep out	past	man not said here	a look			round property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
5	cry out speech: express	past	man not said here			time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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