Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 94

One of the Skazkas[179] relates how a certain old couple, who had no children, were advised to get a number of eggs from the village--one from each house--and to place them under a sitting hen.

Who acts: One, certain old couple · What happens: relate, have, advise, get, sit · To what, where: children, number, village

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, certain old couple), 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	8 relates	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Skazkas	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Skazkas	det
4	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 relates	nsubj
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 179	punct
6	179	179	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Skazkas	list
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 179	punct
8	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 relates	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 couple	det
11	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 couple	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 couple	amod
13	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 how	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 couple	acl:relcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 children	det
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 advised	punct
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 advised	aux:pass
21	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 had	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 advised	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 number	det
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 eggs	case
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 number	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 village	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 village	det
30	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 one	punct
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 village	appos
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 one	nmod
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 place	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 place	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 place	mark
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 advised	parataxis
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 place	nmod
41	under	under	ADP	_	44 hen	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hen	det
43	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 hen	amod
44	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 place	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 relates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	relate	present	One			vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a certain old couple	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	advise speech: other	past · passive	a certain old couple not said here			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	a certain old couple not said here	a number of eggs	the village	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent number=Theme from village=Source
5	sit	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «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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