Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 112

"I see, your Reverence, God has sent you a misfortune--the hail has beaten the whole field so flat you might roll a ball over it.

Who acts: Elijah, hail, you, your · What happens: see, send, beat, roll, reverence · To what, where: Reverence, you, whole field, ball, hail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elijah, hail, you, your), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Reverence	nmod:poss
6	Reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 God	punct
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Reverence	appos
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	aux
10	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 sent	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 misfortune	det
13	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 beaten	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hail	det
16	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beaten	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 beaten	aux
18	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sent	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 field	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 field	amod
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beaten	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 flat	advmod
23	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 roll	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 roll	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 roll	aux
26	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beaten	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ball	det
28	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roll	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 roll	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	Elijah				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive		your Reverence	you		tree rules
3	beat in a quote	present · perfect	the hail	the whole field			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme
4	roll in a quote	might	you	a ball		hail	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ball=Theme over it=Trajectory
5	reverence in a quote		your				nom reverence «feeling 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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