Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 103

There he saw its inmates, men and women and little children, all sobbing and crying and praying to God; and when they had done praying, they began putting on clean shirts.

Who acts: sort, all, inmates · What happens: see, sob, cry, pray, do, begin · To what, where: inmates, God, clean shirts

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 (sort, all, inmates), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 inmates	nmod:poss
5	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 inmates	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 women	cc
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 inmates	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 children	cc
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 inmates	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sobbing	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sobbing	nsubj
15	sobbing	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crying	cc
17	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sobbing	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 praying	cc
19	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sobbing	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 God	case
21	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 praying	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 done	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 done	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 done	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
28	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 done	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
32	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 began	xcomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 shirts	case
34	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shirts	amod
35	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 putting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	sort	horse's inmates and men and women and little children		there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inmate=Stimulus
2	sob	gerund	all				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund	all not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pray	gerund	all not said here		God		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	do	past · perfect	inmates = inmate				tree rules
6	pray	gerund	inmates = inmate not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	begin	past	inmates = inmate				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	put	gerund	inmates = inmate not said here			clean shirts	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shirt=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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