Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 10

In the evening the boy went to the church, traced a circle round him with the knife, and betook himself to the psalter.

Who acts: boy · What happens: go, trace, betake · To what, where: church, circle, boy

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 traced	punct
11	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 circle	det
13	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 traced	obj
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 traced	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 knife	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 traced	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 betook	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 betook	cc
21	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 betook	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 psalter	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 psalter	det
25	psalter	psalter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 betook	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the boy		the church	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	trace	past	the boy not said here	a circle			round boy; with the knife	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme
3	betake	past	the boy not said here	boy			to the psalter	tree rules

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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