Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 12

And when the old man had returned home, the youth told him to go to Novgorod, there to enquire for a merchant, and ask him whether he had any children.

Who acts: old man, youth · What happens: return, tell, go, enquire, ask, have · To what, where: man, Novgorod, youth, children · 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 (old man, youth), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 returned	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 returned	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 returned	aux
7	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 returned	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 returned	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Novgorod	case
17	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 enquire	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 enquire	expl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 enquire	mark
21	enquire	enquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 merchant	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 merchant	det
24	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enquire	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 enquire	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ask	obj
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	ccomp
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past · perfect	the old man				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the youth		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here			Novgorod		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to novgorod=Initial_Location
4	enquire speech: other	to-infinitive	the youth not said here			there	for a merchant	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the youth not said here		youth			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	have	past	youth	any children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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