Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 86

But the bundle fell out of the old man's hands and killed the old woman."

Who acts: bundle · What happens: fall, kill · To what, where: hands, old woman

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 (bundle), 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 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bundle	det
3	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	11 hands	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 hands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 killed	cc
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killed	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the bundle			the old man's hands			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location
2	kill	past	the bundle not said here	the old woman					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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