Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 146

On the banks of this brook, a long time ago, a certain man set up a mill, and the fish came and implored the stream to grant them its aid, saying, "We used to have room enough and be at our ease, but now an evil man is taking away the water from us."

Who acts: certain man, fish, We, evil man · What happens: set up, come, implore, grant, say, use · To what, where: mill, banks, stream, room, ease, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (certain man, fish, We, evil 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 banks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 banks	det
3	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brook	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 brook	det
6	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banks	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brook	appos
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 time	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brook	conj
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 man	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mill	det
19	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 implored	cc
26	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stream	det
28	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 implored	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 grant	mark
30	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 implored	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 grant	obj
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 aid	nmod:poss
33	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grant	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saying	punct
35	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 implored	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 used	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 used	punct
38	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 used	nsubj
39	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 saying	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 have	mark
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 used	xcomp
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 have	obj
43	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 room	amod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 ease	cc
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 ease	cop
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 ease	case
47	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 ease	nmod:poss
48	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 have	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 taking	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 taking	cc
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 taking	advmod
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 man	det
53	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 man	amod
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 taking	nsubj
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 taking	aux
56	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 used	advcl
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 taking	advmod
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 water	det
59	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 taking	obj
60	from	from	ADP	_	61 us	case
61	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 taking	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set up	participle	a certain man not said here	a mill				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient mill=Result
2	come	past	the fish		the banks of this brook and a certain man			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
3	implore	past	the fish not said here	the stream				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Recipient
4	grant	to-infinitive	the fish not said here	banks = bank				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal aid=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the fish not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	use in a quote	past	We					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	have in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	room				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
8	is in a quote	infinitive	We not said here		our ease			tree rules
9	take away in a quote	present · progressive	a evil man	the water		now	from us; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent water=Theme from we=Initial_Location

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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