Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 22

When my crops were ruined by the hail, he bestirred himself like anything, and gave me a plentiful harvest, twice as good as the other would have been."

Who acts: hail, Prophet, plentiful harvest · What happens: ruin, bestir, give, be · To what, where: crops, Prophet, me

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail, Prophet, plentiful harvest), 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	SCONJ	_	5 ruined	mark
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 crops	nmod:poss
3	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruined	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ruined	aux:pass
5	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bestirred	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hail	det
8	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ruined	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ruined	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bestirred	nsubj
11	bestirred	bestir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 bestirred	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 anything	case
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 bestirred	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bestirred	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 harvest	det
20	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 harvest	amod
21	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 been	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
23	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 good	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 harvest	acl:relcl
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 good	obl
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 been	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 been	aux
31	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gave	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bestirred	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 bestirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ruin	past · passive	the hail	my crops			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	bestir	past	Prophet	Prophet		like anything	tree rules
3	give	past	Prophet not said here		me		tree rules
4	be	would · perfect	a plentiful harvest				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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