Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 52

The poor brother had climbed up a tree one night, and suddenly he saw beneath him what seemed to be two men--the one driving a pack of wolves, the other attending to the conveyance of a quantity of bread.

Who acts: brother, one · What happens: climb up, see, seem, be, drive, convey · To what, where: poor brother, two men, pack, quantity · 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 (brother, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	aux
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 climbed	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 night	nummod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 saw	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	23 men	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 men	cop
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 men	nummod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seemed	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 men	appos
27	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 one	acl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pack	det
29	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 driving	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 wolves	case
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pack	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 attending	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 attending	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 attending	amod
35	attending	attending	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 men	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 conveyance	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 conveyance	det
38	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 attending	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 quantity	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 quantity	det
41	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 conveyance	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 bread	case
43	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 quantity	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past · perfect · passive		the poor brother	night		tree rules
2	see	past	brother			beneath man; suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		two men and the other attending to the conveyance of a quantity of bread			tree rules
5	drive	gerund	the one not said here	a pack of wolves			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme pack=Trajectory
6	convey			a quantity of bread			nom conveyance «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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