Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 39

The fool drove into the forest, got out of the sledge, sat down on a log, and said--

Who acts: fool · What happens: drive, get out, sit down, say · To what, where: forest, sledge, log · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fool	det
2	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 sledge	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sledge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sledge	det
12	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 log	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 log	det
18	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	parataxis
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drive	past	the fool		the forest	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory
2	get out	past		the sledge		tree rules
3	sit down	past			a log	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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