Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 54

And when he had chopped her up into little pieces, he threw them into the tub, washed them, rinsed them, and then put them together bit by bit, exactly as the old man had done, expecting to see all the pieces unite with each other.

Who acts: Pope, old man, pieces · What happens: chop up, throw, wash, rinse, put, do · To what, where: Princess, little pieces, pieces, tub · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old man, pieces), 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	_	5 chopped	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 chopped	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	aux
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pieces	amod
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chopped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pieces	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 tub	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tub	det
17	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 washed	punct
19	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 washed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rinsed	punct
22	rinsed	rinse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 washed	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rinsed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 put	advmod
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	30 bit	advmod
30	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 bit	case
32	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct
34	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	40 done	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 done	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 done	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 done	aux
40	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 put	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 expecting	punct
42	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 done	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 see	mark
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 expecting	xcomp
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 pieces	det:predet
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 pieces	det
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 unite	nsubj
48	unite	unite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 see	ccomp
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 each	case
50	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	48 unite	obl
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 each	fixed
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past · perfect	Pope	Princess		into little pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into piece=Result
2	throw	past	Pope	pieces = piece		into the tub result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into tub=Result
3	wash	past	Pope not said here	pieces = piece			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	rinse	past	Pope not said here	pieces = piece			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
5	put	infinitive		pieces = piece	then	by bit; bit obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by bit=Destination
6	do	past · perfect	the old man			exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	expect	gerund	the old man not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	unite	infinitive	all pieces			with each	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with each=Co-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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