Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 93

The grandfather climbed up to heaven, climbed and climbed--there stood a hut (_khatka_), its walls of pancakes, its benches of white bread, the stove of buttered curds.

Who acts: grandfather · What happens: climb up, climb, stand, butter · To what, where: heaven, hut

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 (grandfather), 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	2 grandfather	det
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climbed	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 heaven	case
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 climbed	punct
8	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 climbed	cc
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climbed	conj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 stood	expl
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 khatka	punct
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 khatka	punct
18	khatka	khatka	X	Foreign=Yes	15 hut	conj
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walls	punct
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 walls	nmod:poss
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 pancakes	case
25	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 walls	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 benches	punct
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 benches	nmod:poss
28	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 walls	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 bread	case
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bread	amod
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 benches	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stove	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stove	det
34	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bread	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 curds	case
36	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 curds	amod
37	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stove	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the grandfather		heaven		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Destination
2	climb	past					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	climb	past					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	the grandfather not said here	a hut	there	heaven's walls of pancakes and heaven's benches of white bread and the stove of buttered curds obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus
5	butter	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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