Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 117

The son grew up,[471] and the old woman began to say to the old man:

Who acts: son, old woman · What happens: grow up, begin, say · To what, where: 471, old man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, old woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grew	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 471	punct
6	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 471	punct
7	471	471	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 grew	obl
8	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 471	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	grow up	past	the son	471		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the old woman			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here		the old man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient

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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