Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 53

The orphan went to the cart and saw a little boy--one that seemed about three years old.

Who acts: orphan · What happens: go, see, seem · To what, where: cart, little boy

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 (orphan), 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 orphan	det
2	orphan	orphan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 boy	appos
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 three	advmod
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 old	obl:unmarked
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seemed	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the orphan		the cart		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cart=Initial_Location
2	see	past	the orphan not said here	a little boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	seem	past				old property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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