Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 76

Every one who passed by took out of them as much money as his hand could grasp, and yet the money wouldn't come to an end.

Who acts: one, hand, money · What happens: pass by, take out, grasp, not come · To what, where: fiends, end

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 (one, hand, money), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 passed	advmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 them	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 money	amod
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 grasp	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grasp	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 grasp	aux
17	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 money	det
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 end	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass by	past	every one			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take out	past	every one	fiends = fiend		tree rules
3	grasp	could	moujik's hand			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	not come	would	the money		to a end; yet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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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