Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 57

"As I was coming home, grandfather, I happened to meet an uncommonly fine girl, and, sinner that I am, I chaffed her, and she said to me:

Who acts: Soldier, sinner · What happens: come, happen, meet, chaff, say · To what, where: grandfather, fine girl, girl, Soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, sinner), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 coming	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 coming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 happened	ccomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 coming	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grandfather	punct
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 meet	mark
13	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 happened	xcomp
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
15	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	_	16 fine	advmod
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meet	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 chaffed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 chaffed	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sinner	punct
21	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chaffed	nsubj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 am	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 am	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sinner	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sinner	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 chaffed	nsubj
27	chaffed	chaff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	parataxis
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 chaffed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chaffed	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past · progressive	the Soldier = soldier	grandfather		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen in a quote	past	the Soldier = soldier				tree rules
3	meet in a quote	to-infinitive	the Soldier = soldier not said here	a fine girl			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent
4	chaff in a quote	past	sinner	girl			tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	sinner		the Soldier = soldier		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=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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