Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 57

And immediately the old man drew himself up and straightened himself, and called aloud and whistled with a ringing voice, with a shrill[334] whistle.

Who acts: old man · What happens: draw up, straighten, call, whistle · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 drew	cc
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	6 drew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	nsubj
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 drew	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 drew	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 straightened	cc
10	straightened	straighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drew	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 straightened	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 drew	conj
15	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	14 called	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whistled	cc
17	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 voice	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 voice	det
20	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 voice	compound
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whistled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whistle	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	29 whistle	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 whistle	det
25	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 whistle	amod
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	27 334	punct
27	334	334	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 whistle	nummod
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 334	punct
29	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whistled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw up	past	the old man	man	immediately property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	straighten	past	the old man not said here	man		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	call	participle	the old man not said here		aloud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	whistle	past	the old man not said here		with a ringing voice; with a shrill 334 whistle	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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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