Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 39

He spoke about it to the blind man, and they went together to their adopted sister, and began questioning her.

Who acts: man, things · What happens: speak, go together, adopt, begin, question · To what, where: Katoma · 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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 sister	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
16	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sister	amod
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
21	questioning	question	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 began	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 questioning	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man		about maiden; to the blind man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to man=Co-Agent
2	go together	past	things = thing		to things's adopted sister; together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial_Location
3	adopt	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	question speech: other	gerund	man not said here	Katoma		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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