Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 55

But as, in each capacity, he involves his masters in heavy losses, he soon finds himself without employment.

Who acts: man · What happens: involve, find · To what, where: masters, capacity, man

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 involves	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	9 involves	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 as	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 capacity	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 capacity	det
6	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 involves	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 capacity	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 involves	nsubj
9	involves	involve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 masters	nmod:poss
11	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 involves	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 losses	case
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 losses	amod
14	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 involves	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 finds	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 finds	nsubj
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 finds	advmod
18	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 involves	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 finds	obj
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 employment	case
21	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finds	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 involves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	involve	present	man	man's masters				in each capacity goal; in heavy losses	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent master=Theme in capacity=Goal
2	find	present	man	man				without employment; soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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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