Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 152

Presently the old man whom he has ransomed comes running up to him, thanks him for having rescued him from a punishment which had already lasted thirty years, and bestows on him, as a token of gratitude, a Cap of Invisibility.

Who acts: man, old man · What happens: ransom, come, run up, thank, rescue, last · To what, where: old man, man, punishment

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 (man, old man), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ransomed	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ransomed	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ransomed	aux
8	ransomed	ransom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 man	acl:relcl
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 comes	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 running	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 running	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thanks	punct
15	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thanks	obj
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 rescued	mark
18	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 rescued	aux
19	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 thanks	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rescued	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 punishment	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 punishment	det
23	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rescued	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lasted	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lasted	aux
26	already	already	ADV	_	27 lasted	advmod
27	lasted	last	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 punishment	acl:relcl
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lasted	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bestows	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bestows	cc
32	bestows	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bestows	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 token	punct
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 token	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 token	det
38	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bestows	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 gratitude	case
40	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 token	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Cap	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 Cap	det
43	Cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 token	appos
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Invisibility	case
45	Invisibility	invisibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Cap	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ransom	present · perfect	man	the old man					tree rules
2	come	present	the old man					presently property	tree rules
3	run up	gerund	the old man not said here		man				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
4	thank speech: thank	present	the old man not said here		man				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	rescue	gerund · perfect	the old man not said here	man		a punishment			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from punishment=Source
6	last	past · perfect · passive		a punishment			year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
7	bestow	present	the old man not said here					on man; as a token of gratitude	tree rules

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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