Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 27

First he finds carpenters attempting to stretch a beam which is not long enough, and earns their gratitude by showing them how to add a piece to it.

Who acts: hero, carpenters, beam · What happens: find, attempt, stretch, not be, earn, show · To what, where: carpenters, beam, gratitude, piece

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 (hero, carpenters, beam), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 finds	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 finds	obj
5	attempting	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 carpenters	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stretch	mark
7	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attempting	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beam	det
9	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stretch	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 long	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beam	amod
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 earns	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 earns	cc
17	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 gratitude	nmod:poss
19	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 earns	obj
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 showing	mark
21	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 earns	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 showing	obj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 add	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 add	mark
25	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 showing	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 add	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 add	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	hero	carpenters		first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpenter=Topic
2	attempt	gerund	carpenters not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stretch not said to happen	to-infinitive	carpenters not said here	a beam			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beam=Patient
4	not is	present	a beam			enough, long property	tree rules
5	earn	present	hero not said here	carpenters's gratitude			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme
6	show	gerund	hero not said here	carpenters = carpenter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	hero not said here	a piece	piece		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient to it=Co-Patient

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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