Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 3

The Soldier jumped up on the stove-pipe, covered himself with the frying-pan, protected himself with a sign of the cross, and awaited what was going to happen.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: jump up, cover, protect, await, go, happen · To what, where: stove pipe, Soldier, cross

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	up	up	ADP	_	3 jumped	compound:prt
5	on	on	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	_	11 covered	punct
11	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 covered	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 pan	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pan	det
15	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pan	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 frying	punct
17	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 protected	punct
19	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 protected	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sign	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sign	det
23	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 protected	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 cross	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cross	det
26	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sign	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 awaited	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 awaited	cc
29	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 going	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 awaited	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 happen	mark
34	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	the Soldier		the stove pipe		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pipe=Trajectory
2	cover	past		Soldier		with the frying pan	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with pan=Theme
3	protect	past		Soldier		with a sign of the cross	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4	await	past					tree rules
5	go	past · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	happen	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	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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