Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 30

The old man took the sack in his teeth, and began climbing up to heaven.

Who acts: old man · What happens: take, begin, climb up · To what, where: sack, teeth, heaven

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 (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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 began	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climbing	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 heaven	case
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	the old man	the sack	man's teeth	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sack=Value in tooth=Location
2	begin	past	the old man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	climb up	gerund	the old man not said here		heaven	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Destination

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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