Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 27

In vain did he apply to a rich neighbor, who was in the habit of lending goods and money at usurious rates; having no security to offer, he could borrow nothing.

Who acts: story, rich neighbor, habit · What happens: apply, be, lend, have, offer, borrow · To what, where: vain, habit, goods, usurious rates, security, nothing

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, rich neighbor, habit), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 apply	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 apply	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 apply	nsubj
5	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 neighbor	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 neighbor	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 neighbor	amod
9	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apply	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 habit	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 habit	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 habit	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 habit	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 habit	det
15	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neighbor	appos
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 lending	mark
17	lending	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 habit	acl
18	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 lending	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 money	cc
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 goods	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 rates	case
22	usurious	usurious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rates	amod
23	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lending	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 having	punct
25	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 apply	advcl
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 security	det
27	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 having	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 offer	mark
29	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 security	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 borrow	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 borrow	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 borrow	aux
33	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 apply	conj
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 borrow	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 apply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	apply	past · do-support	story		vain	to a rich neighbor	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in vain=Destination
2	is	past	a rich neighbor		the habit		tree rules
3	lend	gerund	the habit not said here	goods and money	usurious rates		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
4	have	gerund	story not said here	no security			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent security=Patient
5	offer	to-infinitive	story not said here	no security not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	borrow	could	story	nothing			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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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