Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 7

Now he happened to be sailing one day along the Danube, going with wares from one place to another, when all of a sudden a storm arose, and was on the point of sinking the ship he was in.

Who acts: Russian, all, point · What happens: happen, sail, go, arise, be, sink · To what, where: Danube, one place, point, ship

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 (Russian, all, point), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sailing	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sailing	aux
6	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happened	advcl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailing	obl:unmarked
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 Danube	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Danube	det
11	Danube	Danube	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sailing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sailing	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 wares	case
15	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 going	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 place	nummod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 place	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 arose	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 arose	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 arose	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sudden	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sudden	det
26	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 all	nmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 storm	det
28	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 arose	nsubj
29	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 point	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 point	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 point	cop
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 point	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 point	det
35	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 arose	parataxis
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 sinking	mark
37	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 point	acl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ship	det
39	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sinking	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 in	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 in	cop
42	in	in	ADV	_	39 ship	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Russian			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sail	to-infinitive · progressive	Russian not said here		the Danube	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along danube=Trajectory
3	go	gerund	Russian not said here		one place to another		with wares	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location
4	arise	past	all					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past			the point			tree rules
6	sink	gerund	the point not said here	the ship				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient
7	is	past	Russian	the ship not said here			in property	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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