Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 116

In a certain village there lived an old couple in great poverty, and they had one son.

Who acts: Slavonic · What happens: live, have · To what, where: old couple, certain village, one son

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slavonic), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 village	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 village	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 village	amod
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 couple	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 couple	amod
9	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 poverty	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 poverty	amod
12	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 couple	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 son	nummod
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old couple		a certain village; there		in great poverty	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location
2	have	past	Slavonic	one son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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