Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 111

She left three sons, and they, when they came to man's estate, said to their father--"Where is our mother?

Who acts: Vikhor, sons · What happens: leave, come, say, be · To what, where: three sons, father, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikhor, sons), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 left	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 man	case
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 estate	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 mother	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Where	punct
23	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 mother	advmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mother	cop
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mother	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	leave	past	Vikhor	three sons		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
2	come	past	sons = son			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	Vikhor not said here		sons's father and our mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	Vikhor not said here	our mother		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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