Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 47

So they stopped the fool, laid hands upon him, and began pulling him about.

Who acts: towns · What happens: stop, lay, begin, pull · To what, where: fool

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 (towns), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stopped	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fool	det
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hands	punct
7	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hands	amod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fool	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
14	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 began	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pulling	obj
16	about	about	ADV	_	14 pulling	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	towns = town	the fool laid hands upon FOOL		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fool=Eventuality
2	lay	participle				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	towns = town not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pull	gerund	towns = town not said here	FOOL	about property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

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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