Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 81

There lived an old man and an old woman; the old man was rolling a pea about, and it fell on the ground.

Who acts: old man, pea · What happens: live, roll, fall · To what, where: old man, pea, ground

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, pea), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lived	expl
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 woman	cc
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 rolling	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolling	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rolling	aux
15	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lived	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pea	det
17	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolling	obj
18	about	about	ADV	_	15 rolling	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old man and a old woman	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	roll	past · progressive	the old man	a pea		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Agent
3	fall	past	pea		the ground		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=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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