Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 53

But the fox went into the bath-room, shut the door, and began washing the old woman's remains; washed and washed, and kept looking about her all the time.

Who acts: fox · What happens: go, shut, begin, wash, keep, look · To what, where: bath room, door, remains

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 (fox), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bath	punct
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shut	punct
11	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shut	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remains	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 woman	case
22	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 washing	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 washed	punct
24	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 washed	cc
26	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 washed	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kept	cc
29	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 kept	xcomp
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looking	obl
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 time	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looking	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fox		the bath room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	shut	infinitive	the fox not said here	the door				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	begin	past	the fox not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wash	gerund	the fox not said here	the old woman's remains				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient
5	wash	participle						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wash	participle						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	past	the fox not said here					tree rules
8	look	gerund	the fox not said here			time	about woman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=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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