Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 83

The week passed by, and the old people saw that the pea had begun to sprout.

Who acts: old people, pea · What happens: pass by, see, begin, sprout · Speech: someone speaks here

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 people, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl:unmarked
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 passed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 begun	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pea	det
13	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 begun	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 begun	aux
15	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 saw	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sprout	mark
17	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begun	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	pass by	participle		week	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the old people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	begin	past · perfect	the pea		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sprout	to-infinitive	the pea not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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