Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 119

While they were still in childhood they were left complete orphans, and, as they hadn't a crust to eat, they were obliged to get their living by daily labor beyond their strength. "

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, leave, have, eat, oblige, get · To what, where: childhood, boy, crust, living

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 childhood	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 childhood	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 childhood	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 childhood	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 childhood	case
6	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 childhood	acl
10	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 orphans	amod
11	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 obliged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 obliged	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	advcl
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 crust	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crust	det
20	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 crust	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 obliged	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	aux:pass
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 left	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obliged	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 living	nmod:poss
30	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 labor	case
32	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 labor	amod
33	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	36 strength	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 strength	nmod:poss
36	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 childhood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy		childhood	still		tree rules
2	leave	past · passive		boy				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme orphan=Attribute
3	have	past	boy	a crust				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a crust not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	oblige	past · passive		boy				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	get	to-infinitive		boy's living			by daily labor; beyond boy's strength	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus
7	live		boy					nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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