Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 61

When the Lord was about to fashion the face of the earth, he ordered the Devil to dive into the watery depths and bring thence a handful of the soil he found at the bottom.

Who acts: Lord · What happens: be, fashion, order, dive, bring, find · To what, where: face, Devil, watery depths, handful, soil, bottom

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 (Lord), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 about	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lord	det
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fashion	mark
7	fashion	fashion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 face	det
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fashion	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	nsubj
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Devil	det
17	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ordered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 dive	mark
19	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ordered	xcomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 depths	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 depths	det
22	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 depths	amod
23	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dive	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bring	cc
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dive	conj
26	thence	thence	ADV	_	25 bring	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 handful	det
28	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 soil	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soil	det
31	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 handful	nmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 soil	acl:relcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 bottom	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bottom	det
36	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 found	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Lord				about property	tree rules
2	fashion	to-infinitive	the Lord not said here	the face of the earth				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product
3	order	past	Lord		the Devil			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent devil=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dive not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lord not said here			the watery depths		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Location
5	bring	infinitive	Lord not said here	a handful of the soil			thence property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
6	find	past	Lord	the soil not said here		the bottom		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent soil=Theme at bottom=Asset

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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