Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 85

When the peas ripened, the old man climbed up to where they were, plucked a great bundle of them, and began sliding down the stalk again.

Who acts: peas, old man, people · What happens: ripen, climb up, be, begin, slide · To what, where: stalk

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 (peas, old man, people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ripened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peas	det
3	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ripened	nsubj
4	ripened	ripen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 climbed	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ripened	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbed	nsubj
9	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 climbed	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 where	case
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 plucked	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 plucked	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 plucked	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plucked	punct
16	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 climbed	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bundle	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bundle	amod
19	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plucked	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bundle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 climbed	conj
25	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 began	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	28 stalk	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stalk	det
28	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sliding	obl
29	again	again	ADV	_	25 sliding	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	ripen	past	the peas				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	climb up	past	the old man				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	people			pluck property	tree rules
4	begin	past	the old man not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	slide	gerund	the old man not said here	the stalk	again		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stalk=Trajectory

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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