Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 10

They gave the fool their orders and went away to the downstream towns; but the fool stretched himself on top of the stove and remained lying there.

Who acts: boots, fool · What happens: give, go away, stretch, remain, lie, order · To what, where: fool, downstream towns, top

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots, fool), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 orders	nmod:poss
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fool	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 towns	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 towns	det
12	downstream	downstream	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 towns	amod
13	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stretched	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stretched	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fool	det
17	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stretched	nsubj
18	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 stretched	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 top	case
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stretched	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 stove	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stove	det
24	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 top	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remained	cc
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stretched	conj
27	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 remained	xcomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 lying	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	boots = boot	the fool			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme
2	go away	past	boots = boot not said here		the downstream towns	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	stretch	past	the fool	FOOL	top of the stove		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	remain	past	the fool not said here				tree rules
5	lie	gerund	the fool not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	order		boots = boot				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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