Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 128

The old man took the fish, gave his boy food and drink, changed his shirt for him and his girdle, and sent him back to his fishing.

Who acts: old man, father · What happens: take, give, change, send back, fish · To what, where: fish, boy food, shirt, father, fishing

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 food	nmod:poss
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	compound
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
13	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 changed	punct
15	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shirt	nmod:poss
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 changed	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 changed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 girdle	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 girdle	nmod:poss
22	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 him	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 sent	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 fishing	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fishing	nmod:poss
30	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the old man		the fish			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination
2	give	past	the old man not said here	father's boy food and drink				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	change	past	the old man not said here	father's shirt			for father	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme for he=Co-Theme
4	send back	past	the old man not said here	father		father's fishing		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fishing=Destination
5	fish		father					nom fishing «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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