Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 8

Then the merchant remembered how he had borrowed money, and given the life-giving cross as a surety, but had not paid his debt.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: remember, borrow, give, not pay · To what, where: money, giving cross, debt · 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 (merchant), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 remembered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 borrowed	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 borrowed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 borrowed	aux
8	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 remembered	ccomp
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 borrowed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 given	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 given	cc
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 borrowed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cross	det
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 life	punct
16	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cross	amod
17	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 surety	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 surety	det
20	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cross	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 paid	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 paid	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 paid	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 paid	advmod
25	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 remembered	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 debt	nmod:poss
27	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paid	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	the merchant		then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	borrow	past · perfect	merchant	money			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	give	participle	merchant not said here	the giving cross		as a surety	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
4	give	gerund					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	not pay	past · perfect		merchant's debt			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset

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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