Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 52

The blind man laid hold of the Baba Yaga by her grey hair, and cried--

Who acts: blind man · What happens: lay, cry, hold · To what, where: hold, Baba Yaga

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 (blind man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	nsubj
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Yaga	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Yaga	det
8	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Yaga	compound
9	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 hair	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
12	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hair	amod
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the blind man	hold of the Baba Yaga	by Yaga's grey hair	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by hair=Destination
2	cry speech: express	past	the blind man not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold			the Baba Yaga		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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