Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 105

The (reverend) guest sat down, ate for three people, looked greedily at what was not his.

Who acts: reverend guest · What happens: sit down, eat, look, not be · To what, where: guest

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reverend guest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guest	det
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 reverend	punct
3	reverend	reverend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guest	compound
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 reverend	punct
5	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ate	punct
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 people	nummod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ate	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
15	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	14 looked	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 looked	obl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 his	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 his	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 what	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the reverend guest			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	the reverend guest not said here		for three people	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the reverend guest not said here		greedily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme
4	not is a	past		guest		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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