Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 40

From these, after Ilya's wrath was spent, mankind obtained seed, and corn began to grow again on the face of the earth, but not in its pristine bulk and beauty.

Who acts: corn · What happens: spend, obtain, begin, grow · To what, where: these, mankind obtained seed, face

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 (corn), 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	From	from	SCONJ	_	9 spent	mark
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 spent	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spent	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 spent	mark
5	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wrath	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ilya	case
7	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spent	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spent	aux:pass
9	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spent	punct
11	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seed	compound
12	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 seed	amod
13	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
16	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seed	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 grow	mark
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 grow	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 face	det
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grow	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 face	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bulk	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 bulk	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bulk	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 bulk	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bulk	nmod:poss
32	pristine	pristine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bulk	amod
33	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seed	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beauty	cc
35	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bulk	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		these			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	obtain	participle					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	begin	past	corn	mankind obtained seed but corn's pristine bulk and beauty not said here			tree rules
4	grow	to-infinitive	corn not said here		the face of the earth	again	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=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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