Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 73

That groom always used to tell him tales [_skazki_], and on this occasion Prince Ivan went to him expecting to hear some stories [_skazochki_], but that wasn't what he heard.

Who acts: groom, that, Ivan · What happens: use, tell, go, expect, hear, not be · To what, where: groom, tales, Ivan, occasion, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (groom, that, 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 groom	det
2	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 groom	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 skazki	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 skazki	punct
11	skazki	skazki	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	appos
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 skazki	punct
13	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 skazki	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 occasion	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 occasion	det
18	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ivan	compound
20	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 occasion	appos
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	obl
24	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hear	mark
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 expecting	xcomp
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 stories	det
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hear	obj
29	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 skazochki	punct
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 skazochki	punct
31	skazochki	skazochki	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stories	appos
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 skazochki	punct
33	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 skazochki	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 what	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 what	cc
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 what	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 what	cop
38	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 what	advmod
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 went	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heard	nsubj
41	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 what	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	participle		that groom not said here			always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		tales	Ivan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic
3	go	past	that groom		Ivan	this occasion		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	expect	gerund	that groom not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	that groom not said here	some stories				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
6	not is a	past	that					tree rules
7	hear	past	Ivan					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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