Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 33

Afterwards they began putting the pieces together; when the old man breathed on them the different pieces stuck together.

Who acts: doctors, old man · What happens: begin, put, breathe, stick together · To what, where: pieces, different pieces

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, old man), 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	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pieces	det
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 putting	obj
7	together	together	ADV	_	4 putting	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 breathed	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 breathed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathed	nsubj
13	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 breathed	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pieces	det
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pieces	amod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breathed	parataxis
19	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 pieces	acl
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 stuck	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	doctors = doctor		afterwards property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	put	gerund	doctors = doctor not said here	the pieces	together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
3	breathe	participle	the old man		on doctors = doctor	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination
4	stick together	participle		the different pieces not said here	together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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