Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 24

There lived in a certain land an old man of this kind who instructed his three sons in reading and writing[332] and all book learning.

Who acts: kind, book · What happens: live, instruct, learn · To what, where: old man, certain land, three sons, reading

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, book), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lived	expl
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 land	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 land	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 kind	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 kind	det
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 instructed	nsubj
14	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kind	acl:relcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sons	nmod:poss
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sons	nummod
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 instructed	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 reading	case
19	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sons	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 writing	cc
21	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reading	conj
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 332	punct
23	332	332	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 writing	appos
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 332	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 book	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 book	det
27	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reading	conj
28	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 book	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	live	past		a old man of this kind		a certain land; there	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
2	instruct speech: other	past	this kind		man's three sons	reading and writing and all book	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	learn	gerund	all book not said here				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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