Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 77

The old man climbed up to heaven, slipped in there, walked and walked, admired and admired, and said to himself, 'I'll go and fetch the old woman; won't she just be delighted!'"

Who acts: old man, I, woman · What happens: climb up, slip, walk, admire, say, go · To what, where: heaven, man, old woman · 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 (old man, I, woman), 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 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 heaven	case
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slipped	punct
9	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 there	case
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 slipped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 walked	cc
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 admired	punct
17	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 walked	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 admired	cc
19	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 admired	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
28	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fetch	cc
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woman	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fetch	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 delighted	punct
36	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 delighted	aux
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 delighted	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 delighted	nsubj
39	just	just	ADV	_	41 delighted	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 delighted	cop
41	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climbed	parataxis
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 delighted	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 delighted	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the old man			heaven		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Destination
2	slip	past						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in there=Attribute
3	walk	past						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk	past						tree rules
5	admire	participle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	admire	participle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	past			man			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
8	go	future	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fetch	infinitive	I not said here	the old woman				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
10	not is	future	woman				delighted property	tree rules

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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