Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 63

[15] In another story, a _Durak_,--a "ninny" or "gowk"--is sent to take care of the children of a village during the absence of their parents. "

What happens: send, take, absent · To what, where: 15 story, care, parents

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 15	punct
2	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 story	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 15	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Durak	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Durak	punct
10	Durak	Durak	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sent	nsubj:pass
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Durak	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Durak	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 ninny	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ninny	det
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ninny	punct
16	ninny	ninny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Durak	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ninny	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 gowk	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 gowk	punct
20	gowk	gowk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ninny	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 gowk	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 Durak	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux:pass
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sent	advcl
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 children	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 take	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 village	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 village	det
33	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 children	nmod
34	during	during	ADP	_	36 absence	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 absence	det
36	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 parents	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 parents	nmod:poss
39	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 absence	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive	another 15 story			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive	care	during the absence of stories's parents	of the children of a village	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of child=Initial_Location
3	absent		stories's parents			nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

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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