Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 97

They saw that some one had been meddling with their hut, so they put it to rights, and when they went out they left the one-eyed to keep watch.

Who acts: eye, one · What happens: see, meddle, put, go out, leave, keep · To what, where: hut, watch

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 (eye, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 meddling	mark
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meddling	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 meddling	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 meddling	aux
8	meddling	meddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hut	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hut	nmod:poss
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meddling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 put	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 rights	case
18	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 left	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 went	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 left	advcl
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 left	nsubj
26	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eyed	det
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 eyed	nummod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
30	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 left	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 eyed	advcl
33	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keep	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	eye			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	meddle	past · perfect · progressive	some one		with eye's hut	tree rules
3	put	past	eye	hut	to rights	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	go out	past	eye		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	leave	past	eye			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	keep	to-infinitive	eye not said here	watch		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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