Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 158

The Soldier stayed awhile to recover his breath, crept out of the stove, put the merchant's daughter back in her coffin, and took to reading the psalter again.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: stay, recover, creep out, put, take, read · To what, where: breath, stove, daughter, coffin, psalter

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), 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 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 recover	mark
6	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stayed	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breath	nmod:poss
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recover	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crept	punct
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 stove	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stove	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stove	det
14	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 crept	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 merchant	det
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 merchant	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 coffin	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 coffin	nmod:poss
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 reading	mark
29	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 took	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 psalter	det
31	psalter	psalter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reading	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	29 reading	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the Soldier				awhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	recover	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here	SOLDIER's breath				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	creep out	past	the Soldier not said here	the stove				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stove=Theme
4	put	infinitive	the Soldier not said here	the merchant's daughter	daughter's coffin			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in coffin=Destination
5	take	past	the Soldier not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	read	gerund	the Soldier not said here	the psalter		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic

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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