Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 36

There was a lad there from the neighborhood, good-looking and with lots of money, and he promised to marry me."

Who acts: lad, neighborhood, Marusia · What happens: be, look, promise, marry · To what, where: neighborhood, me

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 (lad, neighborhood, Marusia), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 was	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 neighborhood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neighborhood	det
8	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 neighborhood	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lots	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 lots	case
15	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looking	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 money	case
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lots	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 promised	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 promised	nsubj
21	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 marry	mark
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promised	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 marry	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a lad		the neighborhood; there; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the neighborhood not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	promise speech: promise	past	Marusia			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Marusia not said here	me		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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