Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 112

Woe gripped the rich merchant tight by the neck; the man had to carry it home, and there everything began to go wrong with him.

Who acts: Woe, man, everything · What happens: grip, have, carry, begin, go · To what, where: rich merchant, neck

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe, man, everything), 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	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gripped	nsubj
2	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 merchant	amod
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gripped	obj
6	tight	tight	ADV	_	2 gripped	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gripped	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gripped	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 carry	mark
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	obj
17	home	home	ADV	_	15 carry	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 began	expl
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gripped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grip	past	Woe	the rich merchant		by the neck; tight property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent merchant=Experiencer by neck=Theme
2	have	past	the man				tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive	the man not said here	neck		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	begin	past	everything		there		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	go	to-infinitive	everything not said here			with man; wrong property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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