Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 113

When about to undergo the penalty of his failure, he is saved by that being, who reads him a moral lesson.

Who acts: that, man · What happens: undergo, save, read, fail · To what, where: penalty, man, moral lesson

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 undergo	advmod
2	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 undergo	mark
3	to	to	PART	_	4 undergo	mark
4	undergo	undergo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 penalty	det
6	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undergo	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 failure	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 failure	nmod:poss
9	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 penalty	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saved	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saved	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saved	aux:pass
13	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 undergo	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 saved	obl
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saved	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reads	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 reads	nsubj
19	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saved	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reads	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lesson	det
22	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lesson	amod
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reads	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 undergo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	undergo	to-infinitive		the penalty of man's failure		tree rules
2	save	present · passive	that	man		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	read	present		a moral lesson	man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lesson=Topic
4	fail		man			nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=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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