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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

casenmod:possobladvmoddetamodnsubjdetamodobjccconjiobjnmod:possobjpunctadvmodnsubjauxparataxisnmod:possobjdetobjccauxconjobjcasenmodccdetpunctconjobjpunctpunctrootOnADPhisPRONwayNOUNhomeADVtheDETpoorADJmanNOUNmeetsVERBanDEToldADJstrangerNOUNandCCONJtellsVERBhimPRONhisPRONstoryNOUN--PUNCThowADVhePRONhadAUXtakenVERBhisPRONbrotherNOUNaDETfishNOUNandCCONJhadAUXgotVERBnothingPRONinADPreturnNOUNbutCCONJaDET"PUNCTthankVERByePRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_3 waycase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 waynmod:poss
3waywayNOUNNumber=Sing8 meetsobl
4homehomeADV_3 wayadvmod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 mandet
6poorpoorADJDegree=Pos7 manamod
7manmanNOUNNumber=Sing8 meetsnsubj
8meetsmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
9anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 strangerdet
10oldoldADJDegree=Pos11 strangeramod
11strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing8 meetsobj
12andandCCONJ_13 tellscc
13tellstellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 meetsconj
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 tellsiobj
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 storynmod:poss
16storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing13 tellsobj
17----PUNCT_21 takenpunct
18howhowADVPronType=Int21 takenadvmod
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 takennsubj
20hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 takenaux
21takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 meetsparataxis
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 brothernmod:poss
23brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing21 takenobj
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 fishdet
25fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing21 takenobj
26andandCCONJ_28 gotcc
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 gotaux
28gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 takenconj
29nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg28 gotobj
30ininADP_31 returncase
31returnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing29 nothingnmod
32butbutCCONJ_35 thankcc
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 thankdet
34""PUNCT_35 thankpunct
35thankthankVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 takenconj
36yeyePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch35 thankobj
37..PUNCT_8 meetspunct
38""PUNCT_8 meetspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1meetpresentthe poor mana old strangerman's wayvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent
2tell speech: assertpresentthe poor man not said hereman's storymanvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3takepast · perfectmanman's brothervn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Theme fish=Destination
4getpast · perfectman not said herenothingreturnvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5thank speech: thank in a quotepresentman not said hereyevn 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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