Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 32

After a time the guest enquired why his host was so sad, and on learning the reason, told him to go again to his rich neighbor and borrow a quarter of malt.

Who acts: guest, host · What happens: enquire, be, learn, tell, go, borrow · To what, where: reason, guest, rich neighbor, quarter · 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 (guest, host), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enquired	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guest	det
5	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enquired	nsubj
6	enquired	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sad	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 host	nmod:poss
9	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sad	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 sad	advmod
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 enquired	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 learning	mark
16	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 told	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reason	det
18	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learning	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learning	punct
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enquired	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	xcomp
24	again	again	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 neighbor	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neighbor	nmod:poss
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 neighbor	amod
28	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 borrow	cc
30	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 go	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 quarter	det
32	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 borrow	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 malt	case
34	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 quarter	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enquire speech: other	past	the guest				time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	guest's host					sad property	tree rules
3	learn	gerund		the reason					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	the guest not said here		guest				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the guest not said here			guest's rich neighbor	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbor=Initial_Location
6	borrow	present	the guest not said here	a quarter of malt					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=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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