Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 28

She explains to her visitor that her condition at any given hour affects the whole lives of all children born at that time, and that he had come into the world at a most unpropitious moment; and she advises him to take his niece Militsa (who had been born at a lucky time) to live in his house, and to call all he might acquire her property.

Who acts: Fate, condition, man · What happens: explain, give, affect, bear, come, advise · To what, where: visitor, whole lives, children, world, condition, niece · 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 (Fate, condition, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explains	nsubj
2	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 visitor	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 visitor	nmod:poss
5	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explains	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 affects	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 condition	nmod:poss
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 affects	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 hour	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 hour	det
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hour	amod
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 condition	nmod
13	affects	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 explains	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lives	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lives	amod
16	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 affects	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 children	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lives	nmod
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 children	acl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 born	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 come	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 affects	parataxis
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	37 moment	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 moment	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 unpropitious	advmod
36	unpropitious	unpropitious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 moment	amod
37	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 advises	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 advises	cc
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 advises	nsubj
41	advises	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 explains	parataxis
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 advises	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 take	mark
44	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 advises	xcomp
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 niece	nmod:poss
46	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obj
47	Militsa	Militsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 take	obj
48	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 born	punct
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 born	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 born	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 born	aux:pass
52	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 Militsa	acl:relcl
53	at	at	ADP	_	56 time	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 time	det
55	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 time	amod
56	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 born	obl
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 born	punct
58	to	to	PART	_	59 live	mark
59	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 born	advcl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 house	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 house	nmod:poss
62	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 live	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 call	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 call	cc
65	to	to	PART	_	66 call	mark
66	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 advises	conj
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 call	obj
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 acquire	nsubj
69	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 acquire	aux
70	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 all	acl:relcl
71	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 property	nmod:poss
72	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 acquire	obj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	Fate		Fate's visitor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to visitor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	participle						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	affect	present	Fate's condition at any given hour	the whole lives of all children				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus life=Experiencer
4	bear	participle		all children not said here			time	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	past · perfect	condition			the world	moment	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
6	advise speech: other	present	Fate	condition				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	condition not said here	man's niece				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument niece=Theme militsa=Destination
8	bear	past · perfect · passive		Militsa			time	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	live	to-infinitive				man's house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
10	call	to-infinitive	Fate not said here	all				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient
11	acquire	might	man	Fate's property				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme
12	condition		Fate				at any given hour	nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent at=obl

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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