Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 127

There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to live on; so he went to a rich moujik and hired himself out to him, agreeing to work for one copeck a year.

Who acts: poor little orphan lad, lad · What happens: be, have, live on, go, hire out, agree · To what, where: nothing, all, rich moujik, lad

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little orphan lad, lad), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 was	advmod
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lad	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
7	orphan	orphan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 orphan	punct
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lad	acl:relcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 had	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 nothing	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 live	mark
16	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 nothing	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 live	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 moujik	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moujik	det
24	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 moujik	amod
25	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hired	cc
27	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 hired	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 hired	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hired	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 agreeing	punct
33	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 hired	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 work	mark
35	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 agreeing	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 copeck	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 copeck	nummod
38	copeck	copeck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 work	obl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 year	det
40	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 work	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a poor little orphan lad			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a poor little orphan lad	nothing		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	live on	to-infinitive	a poor little orphan lad not said here	nothing not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	lad			a rich moujik			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moujik=Initial_Location
5	hire out	past	lad not said here	lad	lad				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	agree speech: agree	gerund	lad not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	lad not said here				year	for one copeck	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for copeck=Beneficiary

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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