Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 143

Well, the youth went out upon the highway, began to weep very bitterly, and said to himself as he walked:

Who acts: youth · What happens: go out, begin, weep, say, walk · To what, where: youth · 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 (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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 highway	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 highway	det
9	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 weep	mark
13	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 bitterly	advmod
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	13 weep	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 said	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 walked	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walked	nsubj
23	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the youth		upon the highway; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the youth not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	the youth not said here		bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the youth not said here	youth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	walk	past	youth			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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