Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 97

The old man made his bow, and went home, and the pope and his wife began talking about him.

Who acts: old man, pope · What happens: make, go, begin, talk · To what, where: bow

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, pope), 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 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bow	nmod:poss
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pope	det
14	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wife	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pope	conj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
19	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 began	xcomp
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talking	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the old man	man's bow		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product
2	go	past	the old man not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the pope and man's wife			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	talk	gerund	the pope and man's wife not said here		about man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about 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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