Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 155

The father explains what it is he wants, and the magician undertakes to give the boy the requisite education, charging "one assignat rouble" for a year's tuition.

Who acts: father, magician · What happens: explain, be, undertake, give, charge · To what, where: requisite education, boy, one assignat rouble · 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 (father, magician), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explains	nsubj
3	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 wants	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wants	cop
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explains	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 undertakes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 undertakes	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magician	det
12	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 undertakes	nsubj
13	undertakes	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explains	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 undertakes	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 education	det
19	requisite	requisite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 education	compound
20	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 charging	punct
22	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 give	advcl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 rouble	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 rouble	nummod
25	assignat	assignat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rouble	compound
26	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 charging	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 rouble	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 tuition	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tuition	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 year	case
32	tuition	tuition	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 charging	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	magician			want property	tree rules
3	undertake	present	the magician				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	give	to-infinitive	the magician not said here	the requisite education	the boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient education=Theme
5	charge	gerund	the magician not said here	one assignat rouble		for a year's tuition	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rouble=Patient for tuition=Theme

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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