Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 59

Presently some robbers came along that way, red-handed from their work, and they too prepared to pass the night under the tree.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: come, hand, pass, work · To what, where: way, work, tree

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 handed	punct
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handed	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 red	punct
11	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 way	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 work	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 work	nmod:poss
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prepared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 prepared	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 prepared	nsubj
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 prepared	advmod
19	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pass	mark
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 prepared	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	some robbers		that way		presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along way=Initial_Location
2	hand	participle		that way not said here	robbers's work			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from work=Initial_Location
3	pass	to-infinitive	some robbers not said here		the tree	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
4	work		robbers = robber					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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