Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 121

He collects the cobwebs "which float on the summer air," and of them he makes a cord; this he fastens "to the edge of heaven" and begins to descend.

Who acts: moujik, this · What happens: collect, float, make, fasten, begin, descend · To what, where: cobwebs, summer air, cord · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 collects	nsubj
2	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cobwebs	det
4	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collects	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 collects	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 float	nsubj
7	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 collects	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 air	compound
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 float	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 air	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 float	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 makes	cc
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 makes	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 float	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cord	det
20	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makes	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fastens	punct
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 fastens	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fastens	nsubj
24	fastens	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 collects	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fastens	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 edge	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 edge	det
28	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fastens	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 heaven	case
30	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 edge	nmod
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 edge	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 begins	cc
33	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fastens	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 descend	mark
35	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 begins	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 collects	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	present	moujik	the cobwebs			tree rules
2	float in a quote	present			the summer air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory
3	make	present	moujik	a cord		of cobwebs = cobweb	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Product
4	fasten	present	this			to the edge of heaven	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to edge=Co-Patient
5	begin	present	this not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	descend	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn meander-47.7-1 «NP 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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