Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 36

But when the last ear was about to fall, the Lord had pity upon the penitent culprits, and allowed the single ear to remain as we now see it.

Who acts: last ear, Lord, single ear, we · What happens: be, fall, have, allow, remain, see · To what, where: pity, single ear

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (last ear, Lord, single ear, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 about	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 about	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ear	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ear	amod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 about	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	cop
7	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 about	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lord	det
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	parataxis
14	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 culprits	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 culprits	det
17	penitent	penitent	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 culprits	compound
18	culprits	culprit	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pity	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 allowed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 allowed	cc
21	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ear	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ear	amod
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 allowed	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 remain	mark
26	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 allowed	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 remain	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the last ear			about property	tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	the last ear not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the Lord	pity		upon the penitent culprits	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
4	allow	past	the Lord not said here	the single ear			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer ear=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	the single ear not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	present	we	pity	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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