Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 74

At the time of the Angelical Salutation, the Blessed Virgin told the Archangel Gabriel that she would give credit to his words "if a fish, one side of which had already been eaten, were to come to life again.

Who acts: Blessed Virgin, Virgin, fish, Devil · What happens: tell, give, eat, come, word · To what, where: Archangel Gabriel, credit, words, life · 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 (Blessed Virgin, Virgin, fish, Devil), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Salutation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Salutation	det
6	Angelical	Angelical	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Salutation	compound
7	Salutation	salutation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Virgin	det
10	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Virgin	amod
11	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Gabriel	det
14	Archangel	Archangel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Gabriel	compound
15	Gabriel	Gabriel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 give	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
20	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 words	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 words	nmod:poss
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obl
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 words	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 come	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fish	det
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 side	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 side	nummod
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fish	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 eaten	obl
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 eaten	aux
34	already	already	ADV	_	36 eaten	advmod
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 eaten	aux:pass
36	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 side	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fish	punct
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
39	to	to	PART	_	40 come	mark
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 life	case
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl
43	again	again	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Blessed Virgin		the Archangel Gabriel		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gabriel=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	would	Virgin	credit	Devil's words				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credit=Theme to word=Recipient
3	eat in a quote	past · perfect · passive						of one side	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: of which=Source
4	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	a fish and one side			life	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
5	word		Devil						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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