Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 128

And when he had worked for a whole year, and had received his copeck, he went to a well and threw it into the water, saying, "If it don't sink, I'll keep it.

Who acts: lad, well · What happens: work, receive, go, throw, say, not sink · To what, where: copeck, well, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lad, well), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 worked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 worked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	aux
5	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 received	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 received	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 received	aux
13	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 worked	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 copeck	nmod:poss
15	copeck	copeck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 received	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 well	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 well	det
21	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 threw	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sink	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 sink	punct
32	If	if	SCONJ	_	36 sink	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sink	nsubj
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 sink	aux
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 sink	advmod
36	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 saying	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 keep	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 keep	nsubj
39	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 keep	aux
40	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 worked	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 keep	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past · perfect	lad			year		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	receive	past · perfect	lad not said here	lad's copeck				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copeck=Theme
3	go	past	lad		a well			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location
4	throw	past	lad not said here	well			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into water=Result
5	say speech: assert	gerund	lad not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not sink a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	well					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	keep in a quote	future	lad	well				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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