Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 23

Following his instructions, they made wooden houses, each of which had a door but no window.

Who acts: instructions, wooden houses, Devil · What happens: follow, make, have, instruct · To what, where: instructions, door

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: who acts (instructions, wooden houses, Devil), 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	Following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 instructions	nmod:poss
3	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Following	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Following	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 houses	amod
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 each	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 houses	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 each	nmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 window	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	follow	gerund	instructions = instruction not said here	Devil's instructions	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
2	make	past	instructions = instruction		tree rules
3	have	past	wooden houses	a door but no window	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	instruct		Devil		nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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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