Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 4

His life was a prosperous one, and he laid by money enough to fill two pots.

Who acts: life, moujik · What happens: be, lay, fill · To what, where: prosperous one, two pots

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, moujik), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laid	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 money	case
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 laid	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fill	mark
15	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laid	advcl
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pots	nummod
17	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fill	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	moujik's life	a prosperous one		tree rules
2	lay	past	moujik		by money; enough property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by money=Destination
3	fill	to-infinitive	moujik not said here	two pots		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient

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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