Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 23

He carried her to a place where lay a felled oak, with two branches one on the top of the other, and put the hare on the lower branch; then he ran under the branch and kissed the hare, but took good care that the branch should be between them.

Who acts: fox · What happens: carry, lay, fell, put, run, kiss · To what, where: hare, place, felled oak, lower branch, branch, good care

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (fox), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 lay	advmod
8	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 oak	det
10	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 oak	amod
11	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 branches	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 branches	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 branches	nummod
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 branches	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 top	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carried	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hare	det
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 branch	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 branch	det
30	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 branch	amod
31	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 ran	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
36	under	under	ADP	_	38 branch	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 branch	det
38	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kissed	cc
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ran	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hare	det
42	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 took	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 took	cc
45	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
46	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 care	amod
47	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 took	obj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 between	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 branch	det
50	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 between	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 between	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 between	cop
53	between	between	ADP	_	45 took	obj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 between	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	fox	hare	a place		with two branches one on the top of the other	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to place=Destination
2	lay	present		a felled oak				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Result
3	fell	participle						tree rules
4	put	infinitive	fox not said here	the hare	the lower branch			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on branch=Destination
5	run	past	fox		the branch	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under branch=Trajectory
6	kiss	past	fox not said here	the hare				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Co-Agent
7	take	past	fox not said here	good care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme between=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: «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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