Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 25

The soldier jumped down from the stove-pipe, and began putting out the fire.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: jump down, begin, put out · To what, where: stove pipe, fire

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 jumped	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 pipe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pipe	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pipe	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 stove	punct
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
13	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 putting	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 putting	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump down	past	the soldier		the stove pipe	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from pipe=Trajectory
2	begin	past	the soldier not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	put out	gerund	the soldier not said here	the fire			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal

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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