Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 40

The sweet savor spread through all that land, and suddenly an old man appeared, and he said to the orphan:

Who acts: sweet savor, man · What happens: spread, appear, say · To what, where: sweet savor, land, orphan · 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 (sweet savor, man), 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	3 savor	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 savor	amod
3	savor	savor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 savor	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 land	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 land	det:predet
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 appeared	cc
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 appeared	advmod
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	nsubj
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 appeared	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 orphan	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 orphan	det
22	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	participle		the sweet savor not said here		all land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Location
2	appear	past	the sweet savor				suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man		the orphan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to orphan=Recipient

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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