Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 122

Long before he reaches the earth he comes to the end of his cord, so he crosses himself, and lets go.

Who acts: moujik · What happens: reach, come, cross, let, go · To what, where: earth, moujik

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), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 reaches	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 reaches	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reaches	nsubj
4	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reaches	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 earth	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cord	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cord	nmod:poss
14	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crosses	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 crosses	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crosses	nsubj
18	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reaches	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 crosses	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lets	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lets	cc
22	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reaches	conj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lets	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reaches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present	moujik	the earth		long property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
2	come	present	moujik	the earth not said here	to the end of moujik's cord		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location earth=Theme
3	cross	present	moujik	moujik			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	let	present	moujik not said here				tree rules
5	go	infinitive	moujik not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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