Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 148

On the way, Nikita enters several forges, desiring to have a war mace cast for him, and in one of them he finds fifty smiths tormenting an old man.

Who acts: Nikita, one, fifty smiths · What happens: enter, desire, have, find, torment · To what, where: several forges, way, mace cast, fifty smiths, old man

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nikita, one, fifty smiths), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enters	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
5	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 enters	nsubj
6	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forges	amod
8	forges	forge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enters	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 desiring	punct
10	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 enters	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 desiring	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cast	det
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mace	compound
15	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cast	compound
16	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 finds	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 finds	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 finds	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 finds	nsubj
26	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enters	conj
27	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 smiths	nummod
28	smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 finds	obj
29	tormenting	torment	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 smiths	acl
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tormenting	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	present	Nikita	several forges	the way		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forge=Destination
2	desire	gerund	Nikita not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nikita not said here	a mace cast		for Nikita	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=Patient
4	find	present	one of forges	fifty smiths			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Topic
5	torment	gerund	fifty smiths not said here	a old man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer

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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