Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 70

Was it to chop fuel that I came here?

Who acts: pillar, I · What happens: be, come · To what, where: fuel

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pillar, I), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chop	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chop	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chop	mark
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chop	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fuel	acl:relcl
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 came	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	pillar					chop property	tree rules
2	come	past	I	fuel		here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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