Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 10

Well, that same night the eldest daughter-in-law took her seat beside him with some grey wool, and began spinning.

Who acts: eldest daughter · What happens: take, begin, spin · To what, where: seat

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest daughter), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 night	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl:unmarked
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	conj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 seat	nmod:poss
15	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 wool	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 wool	det
20	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wool	amod
21	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
25	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 began	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the eldest daughter and law	cross's seat	night	beside Moujik; with some grey wool	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
2	begin	past	the eldest daughter and law not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	spin	gerund	the eldest daughter and law not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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