Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 56

Then he tries another country, in which the king gives him a post as a sort of stoker in the royal distillery, which he soon all but burns down.

Who acts: man, king · What happens: try, give, burn down, sort · To what, where: country, post, man, stoker, royal distillery

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, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tries	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tries	nsubj
3	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tries	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gives	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	nsubj
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tries	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gives	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 post	det
14	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 sort	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sort	det
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 stoker	case
19	stoker	stoker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 distillery	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 distillery	det
22	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distillery	amod
23	distillery	distillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 all	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 all	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 all	nsubj
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 all	advmod
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 distillery	conj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 burns	cc
30	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 all	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 burns	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	man	another country			then		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Eventuality
2	give	present	the king	a post	man			as a sort of stoker in the royal distillery	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient post=Theme
3	burn down	present	the king not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sort			stoker		the royal distillery			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place

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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