Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 38

The blind man could see nothing, but Katoma remarked that things weren't going well.

Who acts: blind man, Katoma, things · What happens: see, remark, not go · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (blind man, Katoma, things), 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	3 man	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remarked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 remarked	cc
9	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 remarked	nsubj
10	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 going	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 going	advmod
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 remarked	ccomp
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 going	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	could	the blind man	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	remark speech: assert	past	Katoma			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go	past · progressive	things		well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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