Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 7

Well the orphan bought the kitten, and afterwards hired himself to a merchant, to sit in his shop.

Who acts: orphan · What happens: buy, hire, sit · To what, where: kitten, shop

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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 bought	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 orphan	det
3	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bought	nsubj
4	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitten	det
6	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hired	cc
9	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	10 hired	advmod
10	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bought	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 hired	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 merchant	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 merchant	det
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hired	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sit	mark
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hired	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 shop	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shop	nmod:poss
20	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	past	the orphan	the kitten			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme
2	hire	past	the orphan not said here	kitten		to a merchant; afterwards property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	sit	to-infinitive	the orphan not said here		orphan's shop		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shop=Location

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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