Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 60

Then--left about, face! off he marched to the Starosta, and told him to call the peasants together and to get ready a hundred loads of aspen wood.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: leave, march, tell, call, get · To what, where: face, Soldier, peasants, hundred loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 left	advmod
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 left	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 marched	punct
8	off	off	ADV	_	10 marched	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marched	nsubj
10	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Starosta	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Starosta	det
13	Starosta	Starosta	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 marched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 call	mark
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 peasants	det
21	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 call	obj
22	together	together	ADV	_	19 call	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 call	conj
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 get	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hundred	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 loads	nummod
29	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	aspen	aspen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wood	compound
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loads	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		face		then	about property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	march	past	Soldier				to the Starosta result; off property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to starosta=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past			Soldier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	call not said to happen	to-infinitive			the peasants		together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient
5	get	to-infinitive		hundred loads of aspen wood			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus

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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