Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 62

Again the Gypsy saw him riding past, and again the saint promised and forgot.

Who acts: Gypsy, George, saint · What happens: see, ride, promise, forget · To what, where: George

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 (Gypsy, George, saint), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Gypsy	det
3	Gypsy	Gypsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
7	past	past	ADV	_	6 riding	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	13 promised	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saint	det
12	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forgot	cc
15	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 promised	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Gypsy	George	again		tree rules
2	ride	gerund	George not said here			past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	past	the saint		again		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	forget	past	the saint not said here				tree rules

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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