Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 83

One day the old man went to church, and as he stood before a picture of the Last Judgment he saw a Demon painted there--such a terrible one!--black, with horns and a tail.

Who acts: old man, man, Demon · What happens: go, stand, see, paint · To what, where: church, terrible one, picture, Last Judgment · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, man, Demon), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 church	case
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 picture	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 picture	det
16	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Judgment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Judgment	det
19	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Judgment	amod
20	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 picture	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Judgment	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Demon	det
24	Demon	Demon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 painted	nsubj
25	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	ccomp
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 painted	advmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 one	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 black	punct
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 horns	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 horns	case
37	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tail	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 tail	det
40	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 horns	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man		church	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	man	such terrible one	a picture of the Last Judgment		with horns and a tail	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before picture=Location
3	see	past	man	the Last Judgment not said here				tree rules
4	paint	past	a Demon		there			vn image_impression-25.1 «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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