Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 48

A man, to whom such a fate had been allotted, tried to escape from his assailants by hiding behind a stove; but a wolf transformed itself into a cat, and at midnight, when all was still, it stole into the house and seized the appointed prey.

Who acts: man, wolf, all, fate · What happens: allot, try, escape, hide, transform, be · To what, where: fate, man, assailants, stove, house, appointed prey

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 (man, wolf, all, fate), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 allotted	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 allotted	obl
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 fate	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fate	det
8	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 allotted	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 allotted	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 allotted	aux:pass
11	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 man	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 escape	mark
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 assailants	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 assailants	nmod:poss
18	assailants	assailant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 escape	obl
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 hiding	mark
20	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 escape	advcl
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 stove	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stove	det
23	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hiding	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 transformed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 transformed	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wolf	det
27	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 transformed	nsubj
28	transformed	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tried	parataxis
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 transformed	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 cat	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cat	det
32	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 transformed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 midnight	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 midnight	cc
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 midnight	case
36	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 transformed	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stole	punct
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 still	mark
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 still	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 still	cop
41	still	still	ADV	_	44 stole	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 still	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stole	nsubj
44	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 transformed	parataxis
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 house	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 house	det
47	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stole	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 seized	cc
49	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 transformed	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 prey	det
51	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 prey	amod
52	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seized	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	allot	past · perfect · passive		such fate	a man			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to whom=Goal
2	try	past	a man					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	a man not said here			man's assailants		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from assailant=Initial_Location
4	hide	gerund	a man not said here			a stove		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stove=Location
5	transform	past	a wolf	fate			into a cat result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into cat=Result
6	is	past	all				still property	tree rules
7	steal	past	fate			the house		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	seize	past	a wolf not said here	the appointed prey				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
9	appoint	participle						vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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