Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 178
On his way home the poor man meets an old stranger and tells him his story--how he had taken his brother a fish and had got nothing in return but a "thank ye."
Who acts: poor man, man · What happens: meet, tell, take, get, thank · To what, where: old stranger, way, story, man, brother, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor man, man), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meets | obl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meets | nsubj |
| 8 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stranger | amod |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meets | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tells | cc |
| 13 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meets | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tells | iobj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 story | nmod:poss |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tells | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 taken | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 taken | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 meets | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fish | det |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 got | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 got | aux |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 taken | conj |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 got | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 return | case |
| 31 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 nothing | nmod |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 thank | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 thank | det |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 thank | punct |
| 35 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | conj |
| 36 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 thank | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meets | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | the poor man | a old stranger | man's way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the poor man not said here | man's story | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | man | man's brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Theme fish=Destination | ||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | man not said here | nothing | return | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | man not said here | ye | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
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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