Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 141

Marusia went to the priest, wept bitterly, and made him promise to do everything according to her grandmother's instructions.

Who acts: Marusia, grandmother · What happens: go, weep, make, promise, do, accord · To what, where: priest, Marusia, everything, instructions

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (Marusia, grandmother), 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	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 priest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wept	punct
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	7 wept	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promise	xcomp
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 do	obj
17	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 everything	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 instructions	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 grandmother	nmod:poss
20	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 instructions	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 grandmother	case
22	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 according	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Marusia		the priest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial_Location
2	weep	past	Marusia not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	Marusia not said here	Marusia			tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	infinitive	Marusia not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Marusia not said here	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
6	accord	gerund				to road's grandmother's instructions goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to instruction=Goal
7	instruct		road's grandmother				nom instruction «communication transitive»: 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: «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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