Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 68

Well, the imp went to where there were merchant's wives and merchant's daughters; and when they were possessed by him, they fell ill and went crazy.

Who acts: imp, daughters · What happens: go, possess, fall · To what, where: daughters

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 (imp, daughters), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 imp	det
4	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 where	case
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 went	obl
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 where	advcl:relcl
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wives	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 merchant	case
12	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 daughters	cc
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughters	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 merchant	case
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wives	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 possessed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 possessed	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 possessed	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 possessed	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 possessed	aux:pass
22	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 possessed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
28	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fell	conj
31	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 went	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the imp			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial_Location
2	possess	past · passive	imp	daughters = daughter		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
3	fall	past	daughters = daughter		ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	daughters = daughter not said here		crazy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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