Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 56

But that night St. George found that he had no bread to give to one of his wolves, so he gave it the rich brother instead.

Who acts: night, George, bread · What happens: find, have, give · To what, where: bread, one, rich brother

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 (night, George, bread), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
4	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 George	nmod:desc
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 night	appos
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bread	det
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 give	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 wolves	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wolves	nmod:poss
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 gave	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brother	det
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brother	amod
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	iobj
27	instead	instead	ADV	_	22 gave	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	that night				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	George	no bread			tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	no bread not said here		one of George's wolves		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
4	give	past	George	bread	the rich brother	instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient it=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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