Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 4

Well, one day Elijah and Nicholas came walking past his homestead, and the Prophet began looking here and there, and said:

Who acts: Elijah, Prophet, Moujik · What happens: come, walk, begin, look, say, homestead · To what, where: homestead · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Elijah, Prophet, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl:unmarked
5	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Nicholas	cc
7	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Elijah	conj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	advcl
9	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	past	past	ADP	_	12 homestead	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 homestead	nmod:poss
12	homestead	homestead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prophet	det
16	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
18	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 began	xcomp
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 looking	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 there	cc
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 here	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	Elijah and Nicholas		day	tree rules
2	walk	gerund	Elijah and Nicholas not said here	Moujik's homestead		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past homestead=Trajectory
3	begin	past	the Prophet			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look	gerund	the Prophet not said here	here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	homestead		Moujik			nom homestead «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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