Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 89

In return for his services, the Boyar conferred a rich guerdon on the peasant, giving him his daughter to wife, and presenting him with half his property.

Who acts: Boyar, demon · What happens: confer, give, present, service · To what, where: rich guerdon, return, daughter, demon

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 (Boyar, demon), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conferred	obl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 services	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 services	nmod:poss
5	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 return	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Boyar	det
8	Boyar	Boyar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conferred	nsubj
9	conferred	confer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 guerdon	det
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guerdon	amod
12	guerdon	guerdon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conferred	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 peasant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conferred	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 conferred	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 giving	iobj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wife	mark
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 presenting	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 presenting	cc
25	presenting	present	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 giving	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 presenting	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 property	case
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 property	det:predet
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 property	nmod:poss
30	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 presenting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 conferred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	confer	past	the Boyar	a rich guerdon		return for demon's services	on the peasant	tree rules
2	give	gerund	the Boyar not said here	demon's daughter	demon			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme
3	present	gerund	the Boyar not said here		demon		with demon's property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with property=Theme
4	service		demon					nom service «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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