Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 156

He held a private conversation with the coachman as to how his journeyman had set to work with the lady, and what he had done to her, and then he thought:--

Who acts: journeyman · What happens: hold, set, work, do, think · To what, where: private conversation, journeyman, lady

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journeyman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 conversation	det
4	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conversation	amod
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 coachman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coachman	det
8	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conversation	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 set	mark
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 set	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 journeyman	nmod:poss
13	journeyman	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
15	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 held	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 work	mark
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 set	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 lady	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 what	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 held	parataxis
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 what	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 thought	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	parataxis
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	journeyman	a private conversation			with the coachman	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme
2	set	past · perfect · passive		journeyman's journeyman				tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive					with the lady	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lady=Co-Agent
4	do	past · perfect	journeyman		lady			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	journeyman			then		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP 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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