Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 48

The Fiddler took the strings, screwed them up, and again uttered the words:

Who acts: Fiddler · What happens: take, screw up, utter · To what, where: strings, words

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiddler), 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 Fiddler	det
2	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strings	det
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 screwed	punct
7	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 screwed	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 screwed	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 uttered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 uttered	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	13 uttered	advmod
13	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 uttered	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	past	the Fiddler	the strings		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	screw up	past	the Fiddler not said here	strings = string		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	utter speech: other	past	the Fiddler not said here	the words	again	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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