Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 118

The Soldier jumped quickly on to the stove, hid himself in a corner, guarded himself by a sign of the cross, and began whispering prayers.

Who acts: Soldier, corner · What happens: jump, hide, guard, begin, whisper, sign · To what, where: SOLDIER, corner, prayers, cross

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 (Soldier, corner), 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 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 jumped	advmod
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 jumped	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hid	punct
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 hid	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 corner	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 corner	det
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guarded	punct
16	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 corner	acl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 guarded	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 sign	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sign	det
20	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guarded	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 cross	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cross	det
23	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sign	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
27	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 began	xcomp
28	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 whispering	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the Soldier			to the stove result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stove=Result
2	hide	past	the Soldier not said here	SOLDIER	a corner		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location
3	guard	participle	a corner not said here	SOLDIER		by a sign of the cross	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	whisper speech: assert	gerund		prayers			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
6	sign			the cross			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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