Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 68

The old man went to the pope,[32] (but in that village they had an awfully grasping pope, one without any conscience), and says he:--

Who acts: old man, friends · What happens: go, have, grasp, say · To what, where: 32, pope, grasping pope, village, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, friends), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pope	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pope	det
7	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 32	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 32	punct
10	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 went	obl
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 32	punct
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pope	det
20	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	21 grasping	advmod
21	grasping	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 pope	amod
22	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pope	appos
25	without	without	ADP	_	27 conscience	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 conscience	det
27	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	nmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 says	cc
31	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 says	obj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man	32	the pope		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pope=Initial_Location
2	have	past	friends = friend	a grasping pope	that village		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pope=Patient
3	grasp	gerund				awfully property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present		man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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