Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 43

Another story, from the Archangel Government, tells how a certain King, as he roamed afield with his princes and boyars, found a grain of corn as large as a sparrow's egg.

Who acts: story, King · What happens: tell, roam, find · To what, where: grain · 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 (story, King), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Government	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 Government	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Government	det
6	Archangel	Archangel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Government	compound
7	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 story	punct
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 King	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 King	det
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 King	amod
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tells	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 roamed	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 roamed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 roamed	nsubj
17	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tells	parataxis
18	afield	afield	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 roamed	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 princes	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 princes	nmod:poss
21	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 roamed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 boyars	cc
23	boyars	boyar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 princes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 roamed	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 grain	det
27	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 corn	case
29	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grain	nmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 large	advmod
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 corn	amod
32	as	as	ADP	_	36 egg	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sparrow	det
34	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 egg	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 sparrow	case
36	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 large	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	another story from the Archangel Government			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roam	past	King		with King's princes and boyars; afield property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	King not said here	a grain of corn		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic

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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