Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 41

Well, the girl's father and mother opened the window and offered him his shroud.

Who acts: father · What happens: open, offer · To what, where: window, shroud, him

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 (father), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 offered	cc
13	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offered	iobj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shroud	nmod:poss
16	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offered	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the girl's father and mother	the window					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
2	offer	past	the girl's father and mother not said here	his shroud	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal shroud=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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