Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 25

The merchant gave him the cat, received a sackful of gold, and as soon as he had settled his affairs, started on his way back.

Who acts: merchant, landlord · What happens: give, receive, settle, start · To what, where: cat, landlord, sackful, affairs, way

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 (merchant, landlord), 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 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 received	punct
8	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sackful	det
10	sackful	sackful	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 received	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 gold	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sackful	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 settled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 settled	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 settled	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 settled	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 settled	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 settled	aux
20	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 gave	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 affairs	nmod:poss
22	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 settled	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 started	punct
24	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 settled	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 started	obl
28	back	back	ADV	_	24 started	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the merchant	the cat	landlord			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cat=Theme
2	receive	past		a sackful of gold				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sackful=Theme
3	settle	past · perfect	landlord	landlord's affairs			soon property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme affair=Location
4	start	participle	landlord not said here			landlord's way		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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