Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 13

The old woman's cabbage, in the ash-hole, withered away entirely; but the old man's grew and grew, grew up to the floor.

Who acts: cabbage, old man · What happens: wither away, grow, grow up

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 (cabbage, old man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cabbage	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 woman	case
5	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 withered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hole	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hole	det
9	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ash	punct
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cabbage	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cabbage	punct
13	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 withered	advmod
15	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	13 withered	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 grew	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grew	nsubj
21	's	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 withered	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grew	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grew	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 grew	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 withered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wither away	past	the old woman's cabbage and the ash hole	away, entirely property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past	the old man		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the old man not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow up	past	the old man not said here	to the floor	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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