Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 95

And when one of God's holy days came round, he would go to church and offer each saint a taper; but he would go up to the Demon and spit in his face.

Who acts: one, man · What happens: come round, go, offer, go up · To what, where: church, saint

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 (one, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 days	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 God	case
7	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 church	case
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offer	cc
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 saint	det
20	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offer	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 taper	det
22	taper	taper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offer	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
28	up	up	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Demon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Demon	det
31	Demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 spit	cc
33	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Demon	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 face	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 face	nmod:poss
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come round	past	one of God's holy days			round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	would	man		church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	offer	infinitive	man not said here	each saint			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent saint=Goal taper=Theme
4	go up	would	man			to the Demon and spit; in man's face	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in face=Attribute

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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