Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 153

One night the servant hadn't gone to sleep somehow, and he happened to be looking at the window, when he saw a wondrous thing take place.

Who acts: servant, wondrous thing · What happens: not go, sleep, happen, look, see, take · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (servant, wondrous thing), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	advcl
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	9 sleep	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happened	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 happened	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happened	nsubj
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 looking	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 looking	aux
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 happened	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 saw	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thing	det
26	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	nsubj
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 saw	ccomp
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	the servant		night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the servant not said here			somehow property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past	servant				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	to-infinitive · progressive	servant not said here			at the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
5	see	past	servant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take	infinitive	a wondrous thing	place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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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