Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 47

So they sent for his father, who came limping along with the help of one crutch, and who said:

Who acts: crutches, father · What happens: send, come, limp, say, help · To what, where: one crutch · 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 (crutches, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 father	acl:relcl
10	limping	limp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 came	xcomp
11	along	along	ADV	_	10 limping	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 help	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 help	det
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 limping	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 crutch	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 crutch	nummod
17	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	crutches = crutch		for man's father	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	man's father			tree rules
3	limp	gerund	man's father not said here		with the help of one crutch; along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	help			one crutch		nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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