Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 45

Then they bethought them of "a certain man from among the old people, who might be able to tell them something about it."

Who acts: stories, old people · What happens: bethink, be, tell · To what, where: followers, something · 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 (stories, old people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bethought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	nsubj
3	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bethought	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 people	case
11	among	among	ADP	_	14 people	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 man	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 able	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 able	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 tell	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 something	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bethought	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	stories = story	followers = follower		then	of a certain man from the old people	tree rules
2	is in a quote	might	the old people				able property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the old people not said here	something	followers = follower		about Marvelling	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient something=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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