Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 70

The marriage takes place, but one day the well known case comes before him for decision, of the foal of the borrowed mare--does it belong to the owner of the mare, or to the borrower in whose possession it was at the time of foaling?

Who acts: marriage, one day, heroine, borrower · What happens: take, know, come, borrow, belong, be · To what, where: place

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 (marriage, one day, heroine, borrower), 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	2 marriage	det
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 comes	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 case	det
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 known	advmod
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 case	amod
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 comes	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 decision	case
17	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 foal	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 foal	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foal	det
21	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 mare	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mare	det
24	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 mare	amod
25	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 foal	nmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 belong	punct
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 belong	aux
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 belong	nsubj
29	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 takes	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 owner	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 owner	det
32	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 belong	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 mare	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mare	det
35	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 owner	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 time	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 time	cc
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 borrower	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 borrower	det
40	borrower	borrower	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 time	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 possession	case
42	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	43 possession	nmod:poss
43	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 borrower	nmod
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 time	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 time	cop
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 time	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 time	det
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	parataxis
49	of	of	SCONJ	_	50 foaling	mark
50	foaling	foal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 time	advcl
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the marriage	place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	present	one day the known case		before marriage	for decision; of the foal of the borrowed mare	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of foal=Initial_Location
4	borrow	participle					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	belong	present · do-support	heroine			to the owner of the mare	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	heroine		at the time	to the borrower in the borrower in the borrower's possession's possession	tree rules
7	foal	gerund	heroine not said here				vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	possess		the borrower in the borrower in possession's possession				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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