Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 34

But the lazybones took the shroud, went to the window, opened it, and said:

Who acts: lazybones · What happens: take, go, open, say · To what, where: shroud, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazybones), 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 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lazybones	det
3	lazybones	lazybone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shroud	det
6	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opened	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	the lazybones	the shroud		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shroud=Theme
2	go	past	the lazybones not said here		the window	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
3	open	past	the lazybones not said here	SHROUD		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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