Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 119

And as the picture made no reply, he tore it down from the wall, set it on a cart and drove it away, flogging it as he went, and crying--

Who acts: picture · What happens: make, tore down, set, drive away, flog, go · To what, where: reply, wall, cart

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 (picture), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 tore	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 picture	det
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tore	advcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 reply	det
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tore	nsubj
10	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tore	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 tore	compound:prt
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tore	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tore	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 cart	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cart	det
21	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drove	cc
23	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tore	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drove	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 drove	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flogging	punct
27	flogging	flog	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 drove	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flogging	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 went	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flogging	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crying	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 crying	cc
34	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tore	advcl
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the picture	no reply			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product
2	tore down	past	picture	reply	the wall		tree rules
3	set	infinitive	picture not said here	reply	a cart		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on cart=Destination
4	drive away	past	picture not said here	reply		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
5	flog	gerund	picture not said here	reply			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	go	past	picture				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cry speech: express	gerund	picture not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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