Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 25

He asks who it is that has given him such a poor Luck, and is told that it is Fate.

Who acts: man, forest · What happens: ask, give, tell, be · To what, where: man, Fate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, forest), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 given	nsubj:pass
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 given	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asks	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	obj
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 Luck	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Luck	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Luck	amod
13	Luck	Luck	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asks	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 Fate	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Fate	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Fate	cop
21	Fate	Fate	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	present · perfect · passive		man	such poor Luck obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive	man not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: fate=Recipient
4	is a	present	forest	Fate		tree rules

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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