Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 142

Now it happened one day that he came away from his lessons late in the evening, and as he passed by the palace he looked in at one of the windows.

Who acts: it, priest · What happens: happen, come away, pass in, look in · To what, where: lessons, palace

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 (it, priest), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl:unmarked
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 lessons	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lessons	nmod:poss
12	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obl
13	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 evening	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 evening	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lessons	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 palace	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 palace	det
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 palace	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	21 passed	compound:prt
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 passed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 windows	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 windows	det
32	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now; day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come away	past	priest		priest's lessons in the evening		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lesson=Initial_Location
3	pass in	past	priest				by the palace; at one of the windows	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by palace=Location
4	look in	past	priest	the palace not said here				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Attribute

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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