Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 52

At ten o'clock the relations began taking leave of the deceased; then they set to work to fasten iron hoops round the coffin.

Who acts: relations · What happens: begin, take, decease, set, work, fasten · To what, where: ten o'clock, leave, iron hoops

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 (relations), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 o'clock	case
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o'clock	nummod
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 relations	det
5	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 began	xcomp
8	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 deceased	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deceased	det
11	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leave	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 set	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 work	mark
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 set	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fasten	mark
19	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 work	xcomp
20	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hoops	compound
21	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fasten	obj
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 coffin	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coffin	det
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fasten	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the relations		ten o'clock			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take	gerund	the relations not said here	leave				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
3	decease	participle		leave not said here				vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	set	past	relations = relation			then		tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	relations = relation not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	fasten	to-infinitive	relations = relation not said here	iron hoops			round the coffin	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=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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