Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 27

At daybreak came the merchant, and listened at the door to find out whether the Soldier was alive or not.

Who acts: merchant, Soldier · What happens: come, listen, find out, be · To what, where: daybreak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, Soldier), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 daybreak	case
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 listened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 listened	cc
8	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listened	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 listened	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 find	compound:prt
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 alive	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Soldier	det
17	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 alive	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 alive	cop
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 find	ccomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 not	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 alive	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the merchant	daybreak		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at daybreak=Location
2	listen	past			at the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
3	find out	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the Soldier		alive 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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