Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 141

Near the royal palace there dwelt a priest, and the priest had a boy of ten years old, who went every day to an old woman to learn reading and writing.

Who acts: priest, boy · What happens: dwell, have, go, learn · To what, where: priest, royal palace, boy, reading

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, boy), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	4 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwelt	advmod
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 priest	det
8	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 priest	det
12	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dwelt	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 old	obl:unmarked
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 boy	acl:relcl
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl:unmarked
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 woman	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 learn	mark
30	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 went	advcl
31	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 learn	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 writing	cc
33	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reading	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a priest	the royal palace; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme priest=Location
2	have	past	the priest	a boy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	go	past	a boy			day	to a old woman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location
4	learn	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	reading and writing				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Topic

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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