Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 62

A crowd collected and folks looked at him and said scoffingly, "Oh, the fair youth! now'd be the time for him to go to church to get married!"

Who acts: crowd · What happens: collect, look, say, be, go, marry · To what, where: crowd, time, church · 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 (crowd), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
3	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crowd	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 folks	cc
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 collected	conj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
11	scoffingly	scoffingly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 youth	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 youth	punct
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 youth	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Oh	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youth	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 youth	amod
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 youth	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 time	advmod
21	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 time	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 time	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 time	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 church	case
30	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 married	mark
32	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 married	aux:pass
33	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 go	advcl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 time	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	participle		a crowd not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	look	past	a crowd				at youth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	a crowd not said here				scoffingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	would		the time		now	for youth	tree rules
5	go in a quote	to-infinitive	a crowd not said here		church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
6	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	a crowd not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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