Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 125

He catches hold of the duck's tail, and the bird pulls him out of the swamp; whereupon he goes home rejoicing, taking with him the duck and her egg, and tells his wife all that has happened.

Who acts: moujik, bird, that · What happens: catch, pull, go, rejoice, take, tell · To what, where: hold, moujik, swamp, duck, wife, tail · 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, bird, that), 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 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catches	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 tail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 duck	case
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pulls	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pulls	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pulls	nsubj
13	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 catches	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pulls	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 swamp	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 swamp	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 swamp	det
18	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pulls	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 goes	punct
20	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	22 goes	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 goes	nsubj
22	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 catches	conj
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 goes	advmod
24	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 goes	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 goes	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taking	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 duck	det
30	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 egg	cc
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 egg	nmod:poss
33	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 duck	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tells	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tells	cc
36	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 catches	parataxis
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tells	obj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 happened	det:predet
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 happened	nsubj
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 happened	aux
42	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 tells	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	present	moujik	hold of the duck's tail				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	pull	present	the bird	moujik		the swamp		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out swamp=Initial_Location
3	go	present	moujik				home, whereupon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rejoice	gerund	moujik not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	take	gerund	moujik not said here		the duck and duck's egg		with moujik	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument duck=Destination
6	tell speech: assert	present			moujik's wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
7	happen	present · perfect	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold			the duck's tail				nom hold «act 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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