Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 58

Being in consequence of this deprived of a son, he becomes very sad, and drinks himself to death. "

Who acts: father · What happens: be, deprive, become, drink · To what, where: consequence, father

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 consequence	cop
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 consequence	case
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 consequence	nmod
6	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consequence	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deprived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 becomes	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 becomes	nsubj
12	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consequence	parataxis
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 sad	advmod
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 becomes	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drinks	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drinks	cc
17	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 becomes	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 drinks	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drinks	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consequence	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 consequence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			consequence	of this	tree rules
2	deprive	participle		consequence not said here		of a son	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of son=Theme
3	become	present	father			sad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	drink	present	father not said here	father		to death	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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