Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 171

But one day they had visitors at their house, who enjoyed themselves, and drank, and began bragging about their wives.

Who acts: maidens, house · What happens: have, enjoy, drink, begin, brag · To what, where: visitors, house, maidens

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 (maidens, house), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enjoyed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 enjoyed	nsubj
12	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	acl:relcl
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 enjoyed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drank	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drank	cc
16	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drank	conj
20	bragging	brag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 began	xcomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 wives	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wives	nmod:poss
23	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bragging	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	maidens = maiden	visitors	maidens's house	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient
2	enjoy	past	maidens's house	maidens = maiden				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
3	drink	past						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	brag speech: other	gerund					about maidens's wives	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wife=Topic

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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