Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 32

Then they shut themselves up in the private apartment, laid the Princess on the big table, cut her into small pieces with the sharp sword, flung them into the tub of water, washed them, and rinsed them.

Who acts: doctors · What happens: shut up, lay, cut, fling, wash, rinse · To what, where: doctors, private apartment, Princess, big table, small pieces, tub

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shut	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 shut	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 shut	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 apartment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 apartment	det
8	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 apartment	amod
9	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 table	amod
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 pieces	case
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pieces	amod
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 sword	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sword	det
26	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sword	amod
27	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pieces	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flung	punct
29	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flung	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 tub	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tub	det
33	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flung	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tub	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 washed	punct
37	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 flung	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 washed	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rinsed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 rinsed	cc
41	rinsed	rinse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 washed	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rinsed	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	shut up	present	doctors = doctor	doctors = doctor	the private apartment	then	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	lay	past		the Princess	the big table		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on table=Destination
3	cut	past		Princess	small pieces with the sharp sword		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent she=Material into piece=Product
4	fling	past		doctors = doctor	the tub of water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into tub=Destination
5	wash	past		doctors = doctor			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	rinse	past		doctors = doctor			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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