Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 38

A Little-Russian variant of this story says that Ilya (Elijah), was so angry at seeing the base uses to which a woman turned "God's corn," that he began to destroy all the corn in the world.

Who acts: Russian variant, Ilya, woman, story · What happens: say, be, see, use, turn, begin · To what, where: base, corn, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Russian variant, Ilya, woman, story), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 variant	det
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Russian	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Little	punct
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 variant	amod
5	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 variant	nmod
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 angry	mark
11	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 angry	nsubj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 Elijah	punct
13	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ilya	appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 Elijah	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Ilya	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 angry	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 angry	advmod
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 uses	advcl
19	at	at	SCONJ	_	20 seeing	mark
20	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 angry	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 base	det
22	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seeing	obj
23	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 turned	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 woman	det
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 uses	parataxis
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 corn	punct
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 corn	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 God	case
32	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 corn	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 began	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 turned	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 destroy	mark
39	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 corn	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 corn	det
42	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 destroy	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 world	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 world	det
45	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 corn	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Russian variant of this story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	Ilya			angry property	tree rules
3	see	gerund	Ilya not said here	the base			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer base=Stimulus
4	use	present					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	a woman	God's corn			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent corn=Theme to which=Trajectory
6	begin	past	Ilya				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	destroy	to-infinitive	Ilya not said here	all corn	the world		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
8	vary		this story				nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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