Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 23

The merchant's daughter saw them out of window, and immediately ran out, and came to give them alms.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: see, run out, come, give · To what, where: alms, window

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 (daughter), 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 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 merchant	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 window	case
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the merchant's daughter	alms = alm		window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	run out	past	the merchant's daughter not said here				immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the merchant's daughter not said here					tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	the merchant's daughter not said here	alms	alms = alm			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient alm=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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