Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 34

The moment the merchant began praying the winds were stilled, the sea became calm, and the ship went sailing on prosperously to the quay.

Who acts: moment, sea, ship · What happens: begin, pray, still, become, go, sail · To what, where: winds, quay

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 (moment, sea, ship), 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 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winds	det
8	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stilled	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stilled	aux:pass
10	stilled	still	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 praying	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
15	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 became	conj
21	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 went	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 quay	case
23	prosperously	prosperously	ADV	_	26 quay	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 quay	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 quay	det
26	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailing	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the moment				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pray	gerund	the moment not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	still	past · passive		the winds			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	become	past	the sea			calm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	go	past	the ship				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sail	gerund	the ship not said here		the quay		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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