Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 133

When the hail beat all the cornfield flat, the Moujik went to the Priest and bought it back again at half price."

Who acts: hail, Moujik · What happens: beat, go, buy back · To what, where: cornfield, Priest, hail, half price

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 (hail, Moujik), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 beat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hail	det
3	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cornfield	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cornfield	det
7	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beat	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beat	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moujik	det
11	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Priest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Priest	det
15	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bought	cc
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	17 bought	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 bought	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 price	case
22	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 price	amod
23	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	the hail	all cornfield			flat property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cornfield=Theme
2	go	past	the Moujik		the Priest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial_Location
3	buy back	past	the Moujik not said here	hail	half price	again		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at price=Asset

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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