Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 59

These orders are obeyed, and wherever Luckless goes, "nobody ever asks him for his billet or his passport, but they give him food to eat, and liquor to drink, and a place to spend the night in; and next morning they take him by the scruff of the neck and turn him out of doors."

Who acts: Luckless, nobody, orders · What happens: obey, go, ask, give, eat, liquor · To what, where: orders, Luckless, food, doors · 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 (Luckless, nobody, orders), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 orders	det
2	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obeyed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	aux:pass
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 goes	cc
7	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	9 goes	advmod
8	Luckless	Luckless	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asks	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 asks	punct
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 asks	nsubj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 asks	advmod
14	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asks	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 billet	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 billet	nmod:poss
18	billet	billet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asks	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 passport	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 passport	nmod:poss
21	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 billet	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
25	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 food	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 liquor	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 liquor	cc
32	liquor	liquor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 give	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 drink	mark
34	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 liquor	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 place	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 place	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obeyed	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 spend	mark
40	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 place	acl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 night	det
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spend	obj
43	in	in	ADV	_	40 spend	advmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 take	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 take	cc
46	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 morning	amod
47	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obl:unmarked
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 take	nsubj
49	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	parataxis
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 take	obj
51	by	by	ADP	_	53 scruff	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 scruff	det
53	scruff	scruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 neck	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 neck	det
56	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 scruff	nmod
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 turn	cc
58	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	49 take	conj
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 turn	obj
60	out	out	ADP	_	62 doors	case
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 doors	case
62	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 turn	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	present · passive		this orders					tree rules
2	go	present	Luckless					wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	nobody		Luckless		ever	for Luckless's billet or Luckless's passport	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	give in a quote	present	orders = order	food	Luckless				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	orders = order not said here	food not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	liquor in a quote	infinitive	orders = order not said here						tree rules
7	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	orders = order not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	spend in a quote	to-infinitive					night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	take in a quote	present	orders = order		Luckless		morning	by the scruff of the neck	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
10	turn in a quote	infinitive	orders = order not said here	Luckless		doors			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out door=Trajectory

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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