Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 78

Now there were seventy conduits in that city which supplied it with spring-water; and the Lord made these conduits run with liquid gold and silver instead of water, so that all the people had as much as they pleased of the metals they worshipped, but they had nothing to drink.

Who acts: seventy conduits, city, Lord, conduits, people · What happens: be, supply, make, run, have, worshipp · To what, where: city, much, metals, nothing

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 (seventy conduits, city, Lord, conduits), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seventy	seventy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conduits	amod
5	conduits	conduit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conduits	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 supplied	nsubj
10	supplied	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 city	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 supplied	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 water	case
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 water	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 spring	punct
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 supplied	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Lord	det
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	parataxis
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 conduits	det
22	conduits	conduit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 run	nsubj
23	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 made	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 gold	case
25	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gold	amod
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 silver	cc
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gold	conj
29	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 water	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 instead	fixed
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 had	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 people	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 made	conj
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 had	obj
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 pleased	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 pleased	nsubj
43	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 much	advcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 metals	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 metals	det
46	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 pleased	obl
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 worshipped	nsubj
48	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 metals	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 had	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 had	cc
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 had	nsubj
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 made	conj
53	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 had	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 drink	mark
55	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 nothing	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	seventy conduits in that city		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	supply	past	that city	city			with spring water	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with water=Theme
3	make	past	the Lord					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	run	present	this conduits				with liquid gold and silver; instead water	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with gold=Material
5	have	past	all people	much				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
6	worshipp	past	people	the metals not said here				tree rules
7	have	past	people	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
8	drink	to-infinitive	people not said here	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP 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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