Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 14

Then the Evil One set to work and spat over Adam and Eve--covered them all over with spittle, from the head to the little toe of the left foot."

What happens: cover · To what, where: Evil set

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	5 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 set	det
3	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 set	compound
4	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Evil	flat
5	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 covered	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 work	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spat	cc
9	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 Adam	case
11	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spat	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Eve	cc
13	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Adam	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct
15	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 covered	obj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 over	advmod
18	over	over	ADV	_	15 covered	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 spittle	case
20	spittle	spittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 covered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 head	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 covered	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 toe	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 toe	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 toe	amod
28	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 head	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 foot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 foot	det
31	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 foot	amod
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 toe	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past		the Evil set to work and spat over Adam and Eve				with spittle; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with spittle=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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