Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 194

So they brought his horse, and, taking off his clothes, he plunged into the vat, but as he did so the horse snorted so violently that all the boiling milk leaped up in the air and the man seized the ring and gave it back to the Tsar.

Who acts: feathers, brother, horse, boiling milk · What happens: bring, take off, plunge, do, snort, leap up · To what, where: horse, clothes, vat, boiling milk, air, ring

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathers, brother, horse, boiling milk), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taking	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 taking	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taking	punct
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brought	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 taking	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 clothes	nmod:poss
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 taking	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plunged	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 plunged	nsubj
15	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 vat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vat	det
18	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plunged	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snorted	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 snorted	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 snorted	advcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 snorted	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snorted	nsubj
27	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 violently	advmod
29	violently	violently	ADV	_	27 snorted	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 seized	mark
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 milk	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 milk	det
33	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 milk	compound
34	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seized	nsubj
35	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 milk	acl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 leaped	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 air	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 air	det
39	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaped	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 man	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 milk	conj
43	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 snorted	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ring	det
45	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seized	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gave	cc
47	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 seized	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 gave	obj
49	back	back	ADV	_	47 gave	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 Tsar	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Tsar	det
52	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	feathers = feather		brother's horse			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
2	take off	gerund	feathers = feather not said here	brother's clothes				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
3	plunge	past	brother			the vat		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into vat=Initial_Location
4	do	past	brother					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	snort	past	the horse				violently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leap up	participle		all boiling milk and the man not said here		the air		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
7	seize	past	all boiling milk and the man	the ring				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
8	give back	past	all boiling milk and the man not said here	ring	the Tsar			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tsar=Recipient

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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