Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 29

How comes it," thinks he, "that the moujik looks like that?--he is still young; but his hair is grey as a badger's."

Who acts: moujik, sportsman, hair · What happens: come, think, look, be · To what, where: shoe, sportsman

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 (moujik, sportsman, hair), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 comes	advmod
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thinks	punct
6	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thinks	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looks	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 looks	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 looks	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moujik	det
12	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thinks	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 looks	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 looks	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 young	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 young	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 young	cop
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 young	advmod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looks	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 grey	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 grey	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grey	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 grey	cop
27	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 comes	parataxis
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 badger	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 badger	det
30	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grey	obl
31	's	's	PART	_	30 badger	case
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 grey	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		shoe			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	think speech: other in a quote	present		sportsman			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	look	present	the moujik			like that	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	sportsman		still	young property	tree rules
5	is	present	sportsman's hair			as a badger; grey property	tree rules

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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