Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 83

The child neither ate nor drank for three years and an angel of God always went about with him.

Who acts: child, angel · What happens: eat, drink, go about

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 (child, angel), 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 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 drank	cc
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drank	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 angel	det
12	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 God	case
14	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 angel	nmod
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 went	advmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the child		neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	the child not said here	year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go about	past	a angel of God		with God; about, always property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with he=Instrument

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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