Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 113

She took a sprinkler, passed her arm into the cottage, and was just on the point of sprinkling--when the Cossack suddenly gave his sabre a sweep, and cut her arm off close to the shoulder.

Who acts: window, point, Cossack · What happens: take, pass, be, sprinkle, give, cut · To what, where: sprinkler, arm, cottage, point, sabre

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 (window, point, Cossack), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sprinkler	det
4	sprinkler	sprinkler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arm	nmod:poss
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 cottage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cottage	det
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 point	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 point	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 point	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 point	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 point	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 point	det
18	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	parataxis
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 sprinkling	mark
20	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 point	acl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 gave	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Cossack	det
24	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 gave	advmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sabre	nmod:poss
28	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sweep	det
30	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cut	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cut	cc
33	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 arm	nmod:poss
35	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obj
36	off	off	ADV	_	37 close	advmod
37	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 cut	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 shoulder	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shoulder	det
40	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 close	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	window	a sprinkler			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprinkler=Theme
2	pass	past	window not said here	window's arm	the cottage		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme into cottage=Destination
3	is	past			the point		tree rules
4	sprinkle	gerund	the point not said here				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	the Cossack	God's sabre		suddenly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sabre=Recipient sweep=Theme
6	cut	past		window's arm		close property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arm=Product

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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