Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 34

The fool had to pass by a town, and the people he met were jammed into corners by his horseless sledge in a way that was perfectly awful.

Who acts: fool, horseless sledge, way · What happens: have, pass, meet, jam, be · To what, where: people, corners

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, horseless sledge, way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fool	det
2	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 jammed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 jammed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 jammed	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 people	acl:relcl
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 jammed	aux:pass
16	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 corners	case
18	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 jammed	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 sledge	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sledge	nmod:poss
21	horseless	horseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sledge	amod
22	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jammed	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sledge	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 awful	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 awful	cop
28	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	29 awful	advmod
29	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fool				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	the fool not said here			by a town	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by town=Location
3	meet	past	FOOL	the people not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
4	jam	past · passive	FOOL's horseless sledge in a way	the people	corners		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into corner=Destination
5	is	past	a way			awful, perfectly property	tree rules

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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