Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 53

Shutting himself up in the private room, he laid the Princess on the table, and began chopping her up with the sharp sword; and however much the Princess might scream or squeal, the Pope, without paying any attention to either screaming or squealing, went on chopping and chopping just as if she had been so much beef.

Who acts: Pope, Princess · What happens: shut up, lay, begin, chop up, scream, squeal · To what, where: Pope, private room, Princess, table, attention, chopping

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 (Pope, Princess), 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	Shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 laid	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Shutting	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Shutting	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shutting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shutting	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	conj
19	chopping	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 began	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chopping	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 chopping	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 sword	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sword	det
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sword	amod
25	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chopping	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 scream	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 scream	cc
28	however	however	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	33 scream	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scream	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 scream	aux
33	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laid	conj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 squeal	cc
35	squeal	squeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 scream	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Pope	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Pope	det
38	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 scream	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 paying	punct
40	without	without	SCONJ	_	41 paying	mark
41	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 scream	advcl
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 attention	det
43	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 paying	obj
44	to	to	SCONJ	_	46 screaming	mark
45	either	either	CCONJ	_	46 screaming	cc:preconj
46	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 paying	advcl
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 squealing	cc
48	squealing	squeal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 screaming	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	conj
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 chopping	case
52	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 chopping	cc
54	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 went	advcl
55	just	just	ADV	_	56 as	advmod
56	as	as	ADV	_	54 chopping	advmod
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	63 beef	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 beef	nsubj
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 beef	aux
60	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 beef	cop
61	so	so	ADV	_	62 much	advmod
62	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 beef	amod
63	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 chopping	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut up	gerund	Pope not said here	Pope	the private room		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	lay	past	Pope	the Princess	the table		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on table=Destination
3	begin	past	Pope not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	chop up	gerund	Pope not said here	Princess		with the sharp sword	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with sword=Instrument
5	scream speech: express	might	the Princess	the Pope			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	squeal	infinitive	the Princess not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pay	gerund	the Princess not said here	any attention			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
8	scream speech: express	gerund	the Princess not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	squeal	gerund	the Princess not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	go	past	Pope not said here		chopping		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on chopping=Location
11	chop	gerund	Pope not said here				vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
12	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Princess	much beef			tree rules

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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