Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 59

A certain Gypsy who had a wife and seven children, and nothing to feed them with, was standing by a roadside lost in reflection, when Yegory the Brave came riding by.

Who acts: certain Gypsy, Yegory · What happens: have, feed, stand, lose, come, ride by · To what, where: wife, roadside, reflection

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 (certain Gypsy, Yegory), 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	3 Gypsy	det
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Gypsy	amod
3	Gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 standing	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Gypsy	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 children	cc
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 children	nummod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wife	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nothing	cc
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 Gypsy	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 feed	mark
15	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	acl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feed	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	15 feed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Gypsy	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	aux
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 roadside	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 roadside	det
23	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 standing	obl
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 roadside	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 reflection	case
26	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
29	Yegory	Yegory	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Brave	det
31	Brave	Brave	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Yegory	appos
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	conj
33	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 came	advcl
34	by	by	ADP	_	33 riding	fixed
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a certain Gypsy	a wife and seven children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	feed	to-infinitive	a certain Gypsy not said here	wife			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	stand	past · progressive	a certain Gypsy			by a roadside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location
4	lose	participle		a roadside not said here	reflection		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in reflection=Eventuality
5	come	past	Yegory				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ride by	gerund	Yegory not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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