Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 206

A certain villager, named Trofim, having been unable to find a wife, his Aunt Melania comes to his aid, promising to procure him an interview with a widow who has been left well provided for, and whose personal appearance is attractive--"real blood and milk!

Who acts: Aunt, personal appearance · What happens: name, have, be, find, come, promise · To what, where: certain villager, wife, aid, interview, Trofim, widow

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 (Aunt, personal appearance), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 villager	det
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 villager	amod
3	villager	villager	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 named	punct
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 villager	acl
6	Trofim	Trofim	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 named	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unable	punct
8	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 unable	nsubj
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 unable	cop
10	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 villager	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 comes	nmod:poss
17	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
18	Melania	Melania	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Aunt	flat
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 villager	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 aid	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 aid	nmod:poss
22	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promising	punct
24	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 comes	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 procure	mark
26	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 promising	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 procure	obj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 interview	det
29	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 procure	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 widow	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 widow	det
32	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 procure	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 left	nsubj:pass
34	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 left	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 left	aux:pass
36	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 widow	acl:relcl
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 provided	advmod
38	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 left	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	38 provided	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 attractive	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 attractive	cc
42	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	44 appearance	nmod:poss
43	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 appearance	amod
44	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 attractive	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 attractive	cop
46	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 comes	conj
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 blood	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 blood	punct
49	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 blood	amod
50	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 attractive	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 milk	cc
52	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 blood	conj
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 villager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a certain villager not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle					unable property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive		a wife				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
5	come	present	Aunt			Trofim's aid		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
6	promise speech: promise	gerund	Aunt not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	procure not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aunt not said here	a interview	Trofim		with a widow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary interview=Theme
8	leave	present · perfect · passive		a widow				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	provide	participle					well property	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
10	is	present	personal appearance				real blood and milk obl; attractive property	tree rules

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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