Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 55

"Beginning to stir!" replied the fox, who then ate up the old woman, collected her bones and piled them up in a corner, and set to work to knead a hasty pudding.

Who acts: fox · What happens: begin, stir, reply, eat up, collect, pile up · To what, where: old woman, bones, corner, hasty pudding · 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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Beginning	punct
2	Beginning	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 replied	ccomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stir	mark
4	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Beginning	xcomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Beginning	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Beginning	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ate	nsubj
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 ate	advmod
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fox	acl:relcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 ate	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 collected	punct
19	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bones	nmod:poss
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 collected	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 piled	cc
23	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 collected	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 piled	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 piled	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 corner	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 corner	det
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
31	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 work	mark
33	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 set	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 knead	mark
35	knead	knead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 work	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pudding	det
37	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pudding	amod
38	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 knead	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin in a quote	gerund					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stir in a quote	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	reply speech: express	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat up	past	the fox	the old woman		then	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
5	collect	past		woman's bones			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
6	pile up	past		bones = bone	a corner		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in corner=Destination
7	set	infinitive	the fox not said here				tree rules
8	work	to-infinitive	the fox not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	knead	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	a hasty pudding			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent pudding=Material

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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