Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 115

But the Cossack picked up the severed arm, hid it under his cloak, washed away the stains of blood, and lay down to sleep.

Who acts: Cossack, cloak · What happens: pick up, sever, hide, wash away, lay down, sleep · To what, where: severed arm, arm, cloak, stains

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 (Cossack, cloak), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 picked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cossack	det
3	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arm	det
7	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 arm	amod
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hid	punct
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hid	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 cloak	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cloak	nmod:poss
14	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 washed	punct
16	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cloak	acl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 washed	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stains	det
19	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 washed	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 blood	case
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stains	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 picked	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lay	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the Cossack	the severed arm			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Topic
2	sever	participle					vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	hide	past	the Cossack not said here	arm	dog's cloak		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under cloak=Location
4	wash away	participle	dog's cloak not said here	the stains of blood		away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stain=Patient
5	lay down	infinitive	the Cossack not said here			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	to-infinitive	the Cossack not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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