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

The elder brothers set off to sell their goods in the towns down the river,[352] and said to the fool:

Who acts: elder brothers · What happens: set off, sell, say · To what, where: goods, towns, fool · 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 (elder brothers), 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	3 brothers	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brothers	amod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sell	mark
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 goods	nmod:poss
9	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 sell	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 towns	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 towns	det
12	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sell	obl
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 towns	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 352	punct
17	[	[	PUNCT	_	18 352	punct
18	352	352	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 river	appos
19	]	]	PUNCT	_	18 352	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 fool	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fool	det
24	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	set off	present	the elder brothers				tree rules
2	sell	to-infinitive	the elder brothers not said here	brothers's goods		the towns down the river	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the elder brothers not said here		the fool		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fool=Recipient

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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