Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 121

She went to a second peasant's, but the second refused too--to a third, but he showed her the door.

Who acts: neighbor, second, son · What happens: go, refuse, show · To what, where: door, neighbor

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 (neighbor, second, son), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 peasant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 peasant	amod
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 peasant	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 refused	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 refused	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 second	det
11	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 refused	advmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 third	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 third	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 third	det
17	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refused	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 showed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 showed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 showed	nsubj
21	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 showed	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 showed	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	neighbor			to a second peasant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location
2	refuse	past	the second			to a third	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	show	past	son	the door	neighbor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient door=Topic

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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