Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 146

He landed on the shore, and began thinking about the coffers, and wondering whatever there could be in them, and why the Eagle had told him not to open them.

Who acts: King, wondering, Eagle · What happens: land, begin, think, wonder, be, tell · To what, where: shore, King, coffers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wondering, Eagle), 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 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 landed	conj
9	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 began	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 coffers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coffers	det
12	coffers	coffer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thinking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 them	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 them	cc
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 them	csubj
16	whatever	whatever	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 wondering	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 them	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 them	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 told	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Eagle	det
26	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 told	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	aux
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 landed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 open	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 open	mark
32	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 open	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	land	past	King			the shore		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination
2	begin	past	King not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	gerund	King not said here				about the coffers	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about coffer=Topic
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund				there		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	could	wondering				in coffers = coffer	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Eagle		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	not open not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Eagle not said here	coffers = coffer				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

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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