Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 42

Holding a lighted torch in one hand and a pie in the other, he goes out to the cornfields, followed by girls singing appropriate songs.

Who acts: youth, girls · What happens: hold, light, go out, follow, sing · To what, where: lighted torch, one hand, cornfields, appropriate songs

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 (youth, girls), 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	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 goes	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 torch	det
3	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 torch	amod
4	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hand	nummod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pie	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pie	det
10	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 other	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pie	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Holding	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 goes	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 cornfields	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cornfields	det
20	cornfields	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 goes	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 followed	punct
22	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cornfields	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 girls	case
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 followed	obl:agent
25	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 girls	acl
26	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 songs	amod
27	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 singing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	youth not said here	a lighted torch	one hand and a pie in the other		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme in hand=Location
2	light	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go out	present	youth			to the cornfields; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	follow	participle		the cornfields not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sing speech: express	gerund	girls not said here	appropriate songs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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