Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 116

However old any one might be, let him eat one of these apples, he would grow young again in an instant.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: be, eat, grow · To what, where: one, instant

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	However	however	ADV	_	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eat	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 apples	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 apples	det
14	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grow	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	conj
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grow	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 grow	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 instant	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 instant	det
23	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grow	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might					let property	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		one of this apples				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	grow	would	Ivan		a instant	again	young property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location

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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