Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 22

One of the old songs tells how a youth comes riding to the Smorodina, and beseeches that stream to show him a ford.

Who acts: One, youth · What happens: tell, come, ride, beseech, show · To what, where: Smorodina, stream, ford, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, youth), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tells	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 songs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 songs	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 songs	amod
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 comes	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	ccomp
11	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 comes	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Smorodina	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Smorodina	det
14	Smorodina	Smorodina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 riding	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beseeches	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beseeches	cc
17	beseeches	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	conj
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beseeches	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 beseeches	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 show	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ford	det
24	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 show	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	One of the old songs				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	a youth				tree rules
3	ride	gerund	a youth not said here			the Smorodina	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to smorodina=Trajectory
4	beseech	present	One of the old songs not said here	that stream			tree rules
5	show	to-infinitive	One of the old songs not said here	a ford	youth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ford=Topic

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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