Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 177

Next day they got up and went to the town, came to the rich man's house, offered him their congratulations, and sat down on a bench.

Who acts: peasants · What happens: get up, go, come, offer, sit down, congratulate · To what, where: town, house, congratulations, man, bench

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	18 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 man	case
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 offered	punct
20	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 offered	iobj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 congratulations	nmod:poss
23	congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 offered	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 bench	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bench	det
30	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	get up	past	peasants = peasant				day	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	peasants = peasant not said here			the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	come	past	peasants = peasant not said here			the rich man's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	offer	past	peasants = peasant not said here	peasants's congratulations	man			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal congratulation=Theme
5	sit down	past	peasants = peasant not said here			a bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
6	congratulate		peasants = peasant					nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: 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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