Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 35

In one of the Skazkas, a peasant goes out one day to a field of buckwheat, and finds it all broken down.

Who acts: peasant, buckwheat · What happens: go out, find, break down · To what, where: Skazkas, buckwheat

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 (peasant, buckwheat), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 Skazkas	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Skazkas	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Skazkas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Skazkas	det
5	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Skazkas	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 goes	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl:unmarked
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 field	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 field	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 buckwheat	case
17	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 field	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 finds	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 finds	cc
20	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 finds	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 it	det
23	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 finds	xcomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 broken	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	a peasant		the Skazkas	day	to a field of buckwheat; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	present	a peasant not said here	buckwheat				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	break down	participle	buckwheat not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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