Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 142

Then the eldest son craved his father's blessing, that he might go and look for his mother.

Who acts: eldest son, Son, father · What happens: crave, go, look, bless · To what, where: blessing

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest son, Son, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 craved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 craved	nsubj
5	craved	crave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blessing	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 craved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 craved	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 craved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crave	past	the eldest son	Son's father's blessing	then		vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blessing=Theme
2	go	might	Son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive	Son not said here			for Son's mother	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mother=Theme
4	bless		Son's father				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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