Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 139

By-and-by he came to a river and was appealed to for food by a shipwrecked crew. "

Who acts: general, shipwrecked crew · What happens: come, appeal, shipwreck · To what, where: river

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 (general, shipwrecked crew), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 appealed	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 appealed	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 appealed	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 appealed	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 appealed	aux:pass
13	appealed	appeal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	13 appealed	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appealed	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 crew	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crew	det
19	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 crew	amod
20	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appealed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 appealed	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 appealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	general	a river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	appeal	past · passive	a shipwrecked crew		for food	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	shipwreck	participle				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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