Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 27

Why, he's so knowing, you see, that his pails have come home and gone to their places of their own accord!"

Who acts: FOOL, you, pails · What happens: know, see, come, go · To what, where: places · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (FOOL, you, pails), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 knowing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knowing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knowing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knowing	aux
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 knowing	advmod
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knowing	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pails	nmod:poss
13	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 see	ccomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 come	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 places	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 places	nmod:poss
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gone	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 accord	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 accord	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 accord	amod
25	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 places	nmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · progressive	FOOL			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	present · perfect	FOOL's pails		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	participle	FOOL's pails not said here	pails's places of pails's own accord		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location

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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