Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 14

The landlord saw that he had a great deal of money, so he gave him a bedroom which was infested by countless swarms of rats and mice, saying to himself, "If they should happen to eat him up, his money will belong to me."

Who acts: landlord, countless swarms, mice, money · What happens: see, have, give, infest, say, happen · To what, where: great deal, bedroom, merchant, landlord, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, countless swarms, mice, money), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 deal	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 money	case
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 gave	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bedroom	det
18	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 infested	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 infested	aux:pass
21	infested	infest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bedroom	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 swarms	case
23	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 swarms	amod
24	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 infested	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 rats	case
26	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swarms	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mice	cc
28	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rats	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 gave	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 saying	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 himself	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 happen	punct
35	If	if	SCONJ	_	38 happen	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 happen	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 happen	aux
38	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 saying	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 eat	mark
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 happen	xcomp
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 eat	obj
42	up	up	ADP	_	40 eat	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 belong	punct
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 money	nmod:poss
45	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 belong	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 belong	aux
47	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 happen	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 me	case
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 belong	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 happen	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	the landlord			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	landlord	a great deal of money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
3	give	past	landlord	a bedroom	merchant	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bedroom=Theme
4	infest	past · passive	countless swarms of rats and mice	a bedroom		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
5	say speech: assert	gerund	landlord not said here		merchant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
6	happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	mice = mouse			tree rules
7	eat up in a quote	to-infinitive	mice = mouse not said here	merchant		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	belong in a quote	future	merchant's money		landlord	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
9	deal			money		nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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