Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 34

[186] All the marriageable young men in the town sent to make an offer to Vasilissa; at her stepmother's daughters not a soul would so much as look.

What happens: send, make · To what, where: marriageable young men, offer, Vasilissa

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 186	punct
2	186	186	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 186	punct
4	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 men	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
6	marriageable	marriageable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 186	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 men	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 offer	det
16	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Vasilissa	case
18	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 make	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 daughters	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stepmother	nmod:poss
22	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughters	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 stepmother	case
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 look	obl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 soul	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 soul	det
27	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 look	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 look	aux
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	32 look	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 look	case
32	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 186	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 186	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		all marriageable young men in the town not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive		a offer	Vasilissa				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offer=Product

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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