Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 46

But when the old man came, "scarcely able to crawl along on a pair of crutches," he said he knew nothing about it, but perhaps his father might remember something.

Who acts: old man, man, father · What happens: come, crawl, say, know, remember · To what, where: pair, nothing, 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 (old man, man, father), 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	_	10 able	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 able	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 able	punct
9	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	10 able	advmod
10	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 crawl	mark
12	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 able	xcomp
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 crawl	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 pair	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pair	det
16	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crawl	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 crutches	case
18	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pair	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 able	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 able	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 knew	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nothing	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remember	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 remember	cc
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 remember	advmod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 remember	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 remember	aux
34	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 remember	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crawl in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here		a pair of crutches	along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pair=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know	past	man	nothing		about pair	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	remember	might	man's father	something		perhaps property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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