Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 44

The axe went and cut him a cudgel, and the cudgel came and lay on top of the load.

Who acts: axe, cudgel · What happens: go, cut, come, lay · To what, where: cudgel, FOOL, 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 (axe, cudgel), 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 axe	det
2	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cut	cc
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cudgel	det
8	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cudgel	det
12	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 top	case
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 load	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 load	det
20	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the axe				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	past	the axe not said here	a cudgel	FOOL		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary cudgel=Product
3	come	past	the cudgel				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	the cudgel not said here			top of the load	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on top=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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