Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 108

[45] I thank you because, when that woman stumbled, and scolded me without a cause, you said a good word for me."

Who acts: 45, woman, you · What happens: thank, stumble, scold, say · To what, where: you, me, good word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (45, woman, you), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 45	punct
2	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 thank	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 45	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thank	nsubj
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 stumbled	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stumbled	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stumbled	advmod
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stumbled	nsubj
12	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scolded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scolded	cc
15	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stumbled	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 scolded	obj
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 cause	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cause	det
19	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scolded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stumbled	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thank	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 word	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 word	amod
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 word	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	45		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	stumble	past	that woman				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scold	past	that woman not said here	me		without a cause	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	you	a good word		for me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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