Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 57

See, the Pope flings the pieces back again into the water, washes and washes, rinses and rinses, and again puts them together bit by bit.

Who acts: you, Pope · What happens: see, fling, wash, rinse, put · To what, where: pieces, water · 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 (you, Pope), 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flings	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pope	det
4	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flings	nsubj
5	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 See	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flings	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 again	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 flings	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flings	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 washes	punct
14	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flings	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 washes	cc
16	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 washes	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rinses	punct
18	rinses	rinse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flings	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rinses	cc
20	rinses	rinse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rinses	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 puts	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 puts	cc
23	again	again	ADV	_	24 puts	advmod
24	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 See	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 puts	obj
26	together	together	ADV	_	24 puts	advmod
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 puts	obl:unmarked
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 bit	case
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 puts	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fling	present	the Pope	the pieces	the water	again		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent piece=Theme into water=Destination
3	wash	present						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wash	present						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rinse	present						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	rinse	present						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
7	put	present	you not said here	pieces = piece		again	by bit; bit obl:unmarked; together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by bit=Destination

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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