Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 146

On that grave he saw growing a wondrous flower, such a one as he had never seen before.

Who acts: son, one · What happens: see, grow, not see · To what, where: one, grave, wondrous flower

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 (son, one), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 grave	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 grave	det
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 saw	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flower	det
8	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flower	amod
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 saw	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 seen	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 seen	advmod
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 one	acl:relcl
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 seen	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	son	such one	that grave		tree rules
2	grow	gerund	such one not said here	a wondrous flower			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
3	not see	past · perfect	son			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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