Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 19

He began climbing up the cabbage-stalk, climbed and climbed, climbed and climbed, climbed right up to the sky, cut a hole in the sky, and crept through.

Who acts: man · What happens: begin, climb up, climb, cut, creep · To what, where: cabbage stalk, sky, hole

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climbing	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stalk	det
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stalk	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 cabbage	punct
8	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbed	punct
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 climbed	cc
12	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 climbed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 climbed	punct
14	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 climbed	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 climbed	cc
16	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 climbed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 climbed	punct
18	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 climbed	parataxis
19	right	right	ADV	_	18 climbed	advmod
20	up	up	ADP	_	23 sky	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 sky	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
25	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 climbed	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hole	det
27	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sky	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sky	det
30	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hole	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 crept	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 crept	cc
33	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
34	through	through	ADV	_	33 crept	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	climb up	gerund	man not said here	the cabbage stalk			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stalk=Theme
3	climb	past					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	climb	past					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	climb	past					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	climb	past					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	climb	past			the sky	right property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up sky=Trajectory
8	cut	infinitive		a hole	the sky		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
9	creep	past				through property	vn run-51.3.2 «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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