Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 86

"Well, there was a time when I had nothing to eat, but now, thank God!

Who acts: idea · What happens: be, have, eat, thank · To what, where: time, nothing, God

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 (idea), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 was	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 had	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thank	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 thank	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 thank	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thank	punct
18	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 time	parataxis
19	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thank	iobj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		a time			tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	a idea = idea	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	a idea = idea not said here	nothing not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			God	now	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=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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