Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 74

His brothers talked away, describing where they had been, what they had seen, and he listened to them as of old.

Who acts: brothers, skazkas, man · What happens: talk away, describe, see, listen · To what, where: skazkas

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 (brothers, skazkas, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 describing	punct
6	describing	describe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 talked	advcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 seen	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 seen	aux
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 seen	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 describing	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 listened	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listened	nsubj
19	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listened	obl
22	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	24 old	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 listened	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	talk away	past	man's brothers		away property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	describe	gerund	man's brothers not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	skazkas = skazka			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	listen	past	man	skazkas = skazka	as old	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=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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