Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 16

It turned out that the youth whom the old man had saved from the devils was that merchant's son.

Who acts: bath, old man, youth · What happens: turn out, save, be · To what, where: youth, 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 (bath, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 turned	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 son	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	nsubj
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 saved	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saved	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saved	aux
12	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 youth	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 devils	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 devils	det
15	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saved	obl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 son	cop
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 son	mark
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 merchant	case
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn out	past	bath			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past · perfect	the old man	the youth	from the devils	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from devil=Source
3	is a	past	the youth	merchant's son		tree rules

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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