Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 26

Thus the story of "Beer and Corn"[439] tells how a certain man was so poor that when the rest of the peasants were brewing beer, and making other preparations to celebrate an approaching feast of the Church, he found his cupboard perfectly bare.

Who acts: story, certain man, rest · What happens: tell, be, brew, make, celebrate, approach · To what, where: beer, other preparations, approaching feast, cupboard · 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 (story, certain man, rest), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	13 tells	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tells	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Beer	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Beer	punct
6	Beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Corn	cc
8	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Beer	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Corn	punct
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 439	punct
11	439	439	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 Corn	appos
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 439	punct
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 poor	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 poor	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 poor	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 poor	advmod
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tells	ccomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 brewing	mark
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 brewing	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brewing	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 peasants	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 peasants	det
27	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rest	nmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brewing	aux
29	brewing	brew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 poor	advcl
30	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brewing	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 making	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 making	cc
33	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 brewing	conj
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 preparations	amod
35	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 making	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 celebrate	mark
37	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 making	advcl
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 feast	det
39	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 feast	amod
40	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 celebrate	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 Church	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Church	det
43	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 feast	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 found	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 found	nsubj
46	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tells	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 cupboard	nmod:poss
48	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 found	obj
49	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	50 bare	advmod
50	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 found	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the story of Beer and Corn		thus property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a certain man		poor property	tree rules
3	brew	past · progressive	the rest of the peasants	beer		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product
4	make	gerund	the rest of the peasants not said here	other preparations		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product
5	celebrate	to-infinitive	the rest of the peasants not said here	a approaching feast of the Church		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
6	approach	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	past	rest	rest's cupboard	bare property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupboard=Topic

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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