Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 10

When he began to thresh he never put more than one sheaf at a time on the threshing-floor."

Who acts: Moujik · What happens: begin, thresh, not put · To what, where: one sheaf, threshing floor

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Moujik), 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	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 thresh	mark
5	thresh	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 put	advmod
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	11 one	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sheaf	nummod
12	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
18	threshing	threshing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floor	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 threshing	punct
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	Moujik				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	thresh	to-infinitive	Moujik not said here				tree rules
3	not put	past	Moujik	one sheaf	the threshing floor	time	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme on floor=Destination

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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