Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 196

So he flung his ring into the vat of boiling milk and plunged after it to get it.

Who acts: man · What happens: fling, plunge, get · To what, where: ring, vat

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 (man), 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 flung	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flung	nsubj
3	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 ring	nmod:poss
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flung	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 vat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vat	det
8	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flung	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 milk	case
10	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 milk	compound
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vat	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plunged	cc
13	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flung	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plunged	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 plunged	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fling	past	man	man's ring	the vat of boiling milk		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ring=Theme into vat=Destination
2	plunge	participle	man not said here			after ring	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	get	to-infinitive	man not said here	ring			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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